nvm_flash(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is nvm_flash(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖 and it’s the function literally named nvm_flash. Its whole entire thing? Flash nvm data. That’s the assignment, and it understood it 💅

💻 SYNOPSIS 💻

int nvm_flash (struct qed_dev *cdev , const char *name );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cdev — Qed dev pointer. Like, the qed device pointer is right there 🫶
• name — file containing the data. Exactly that: the file with the data in it 💅

🌈 RETURN 🌈

0 on success, error otherwise. So success is literally 0, and anything else is the error branch bestie 😭✨ no cap.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

also peep the kernel file ./include/linux/qed/qed_if.h — and here’s the whole friend group:

• selftest_interrupt(9)
• selftest_memory(9)
• selftest_register(9)
• selftest_clock(9)
• selftest_nvram(9)
• can_link_change(9)
• set_link(9)
• get_link(9)
• drain(9)
• update_msglvl(9)
• nvm_get_image(9)
• set_coalesce(9)
• set_led(9)
• attn_clr_enable(9)
• db_recovery_add(9)
• db_recovery_del(9)
• recovery_process(9)
• recovery_prolog(9)
• update_drv_state(9)
• update_mac(9)
• update_mtu(9)
• update_wol(9)
• read_module_eeprom(9)
• get_affin_hwfn_idx(9)
• read_nvm_cfg(9)
• read_nvm_cfg_len(9)
• set_grc_config(9)
• qed_sb_ack(9)

mwah 💋 that’s the page, bestie — source ./include/linux/qed, date October 2026, nvm_flash(9) out ✨💅