ENUM NFP_PORT_TYPE(9)

💅 enum nfp_port_type(9) — a whole vibe check, from the Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, this page is all about enum nfp_port_type — literally just the type of port that NFP can switch traffic to ✨ Think of it as the little label that tells the driver what kind of port it's dealing with. That's the whole NAME bit, no cap 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the actual shape of it, copy-paste energy, do not touch the commas bestie:

       enum nfp_port_type {
           NFP_PORT_INVALID ,
           NFP_PORT_PHYS_PORT ,
           NFP_PORT_PF_PORT ,
           NFP_PORT_VF_PORT

       };

that's it, that's the enum, she's small but she's iconic 👑

🌸 Constants 🌸

okay so these are the four members and what each one means, and yes every single one matters:

• NFP_PORT_INVALID — the port is invalid 💀 and like, lowkey important: NFP_PORT_PHYS_PORT transitions to this state when the port disappears, whether that's because of a FW fault or a config change. so it's not just "oops bad value", it's the actual ghost-town state a phys port ends up in 😭
• NFP_PORT_PHYS_PORT — the external NIC port, like the actual physical one you can point at with your finger 🦋
• NFP_PORT_PF_PORT — the logical port of a PCI PF 🌈
• NFP_PORT_VF_PORT — the logical port of a PCI VF 💜

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these next, iykyk, they're the friend group of this page:

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_port.h
• enum nfp_port_flags(9)
• struct nfp_port(9)

mwah 💋 that's the whole page — sourced straight from ./drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_port.h, dated October 2026, and yes she's still filed under enum nfp_port_type(9) because consistency is main character energy ✨💖