STRUCT ETHTOOL_CMIS_CDB_REQUEST(9)

💖 struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_request(9) 💖

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_request — literally the CDB commands request fields as described in the CMIS standard. 🦋 It's giving "request fields, but make it CMIS," and we are obsessed. 💅

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_request {
    __be16 id;
    struct {
      __be16 epl_len;
      u8 lpl_len;
      u8 chk_code;
      u8 resv1;
      u8 resv2;
      u8 payload[ETHTOOL_CMIS_CDB_LPL_MAX_PL_LENGTH];
    };
    u8 *epl;
 };

🫶 Members 🫶

• id — the Command ID. slay. ✨
• {unnamed_struct} — anonymous. literally no name, just vibes, but it's a real anonymous struct. 🫶
• epl_len — EPL memory length. 🌸
• lpl_len — LPL memory length. 🦋
• chk_code — check code for the previous field and the payload. periodt. 💅
• resv1 — added to match the CMIS standard request continuity. same energy. ✨
• resv2 — also added to match the CMIS standard request continuity. twinning with resv1, honestly. 🫶
• payload — payload for the CDB commands. main character energy, no cap. 🔥
• epl — extended payload for the CDB commands. 👑

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Kernel file ./net/ethtool/cmis.h — go say hi to struct ethtool_cmis_cdb(9), struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_cmd_args(9), struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_rpl_hdr(9), and struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_rpl(9). 👑✨

xoxo 💖 this page for struct ethtool_cmis_cdb_request(9) comes from source/version ./net/ethtool, dated October 2026 — mwah 💋