sis900_get_mac_addr(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🎀 sis900_get_mac_addr(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for sis900_get_mac_addr — yes the (9) means it's a kernel function page, iykyk. this one is literally the "get the MAC address for the stand-alone SiS900 model" girlie and she is so specific about which chips she fucks with. let's get into it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int sis900_get_mac_addr (struct pci_dev *pci_dev , struct net_device
*net_dev );

look at her, returning an int, taking two pointers, living her best life. iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • pci_dev — the sis900 pci device, like, the actual hardware babe we're talking to 🖥️
  • net_dev — the net device we're grabbing the address for, she's the one getting the glow-up

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea ☕ — older SiS900 and friends use EEPROM to store the MAC address. that's their whole storage situation, no cap.

so what happens? the MAC address gets read from read_eeprom straight into net_dev->dev_addr. that's it. that's the function. she reads from EEPROM, she drops it in dev_addr, she leaves. clean, simple, no drama ✨

not me being obsessed with how straightforward this is 😭 no error paths to stress about in the description, just vibes and EEPROM reads.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie there are so many siblings in this family, buckle up 🎀 — and the kernel file they all live in is ./drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c:

the way this list just goes on and on 😭 she's got a big family and every single one of them ate. go read them all, i'll wait 💜

mwah 💋 that's the whole page bestie — brought to you from ./drivers/net/ethernet/sis, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual. stan a reliable MAC-address-getting icon 👑✨

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