pch_gbe_get_link_ksettings(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is the page for pch_gbe_get_link_ksettings, and yes it does exactly what it says on the tin: Get device-specific settings 🎀. It's a little function, it's an icon, it's here to tell you how your NIC is feeling today 🫶.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pch_gbe_get_link_ksettings — get device-specific settings 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int pch_gbe_get_link_ksettings (struct net_device *netdev , struct
ethtool_link_ksettings *ecmd );

like, it takes two pointers and gives you back an int. no cap. 🔥

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • netdev — the network interface device structure 👑 this is the NIC's whole main-character identity card.
  • ecmd — the ethtool command 💅 this is the lil' container the settings get to live in.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 — successful, slay 🎉 we ate, everything went off without a hitch.
  • negative value — failed 😭 it's giving "something went wrong," and the negativeness is your vibe check telling you so.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_ethtool.c — that's where the lore lives 📖

and the whole friend group 💖:

fr fr bestie, read the neighbours too — the pch_gbe family is a package deal and they all hang out in the same directory 🧚‍♀️

anyway, that's the whole page 🍓. this masterpiece shipped from ./drivers/net/ethernet/oki-sem... (yes it's abbreviated in the original footer, bestie, don't come for me) and the date on it is October 2026, so it's literally from the future 💀. stay iconic, go read your ethtool structs, mwah 💋🌈⭐

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