fcoe_create(9)

💖 fcoe_create(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the kernel API manual today (section 9, we love a kernel-internals era) and the function we're hyping up is fcoe_create. it's giving "let there be FCoE interface" energy. let's get into it ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

fcoe_create — Create a fcoe interface

like, literally that. it makes one. no cap. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int fcoe_create (struct net_device *netdev , enum fip_mode fip_mode );

that's the whole vibe check: you hand it a net_device pointer and a fip_mode enum, and it hands you back an int. simple, iconic, correct. 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• netdev — the net_device object, aka the Ethernet interface you're building on top of. this is the "where" of the whole operation, bestie. 🏠
• fip_mode — the FIP mode for this creation. yes, this creation specifically. it matters. 🌈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Called from fcoe transport.

that's it. that's the whole description. short, mysterious, main character energy — it's called from fcoe transport, periodt. don't ask it for more lore, it's not gonna give you more lore. 🙈

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 for success 💖 (and that's the only value this page bothers to tell you about, so don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 🍓)

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the part where the manpage absolutely ATE. look at this friend group. huge. multiple friend groups honestly. the kernel file this all lives in is ./drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c — go say hi 🧚

• fcoe_interface_setup(9), fcoe_interface_create(9), fcoe_interface_remove(9), fcoe_interface_cleanup(9)
• fcoe_fip_recv(9), fcoe_fip_vlan_recv(9), fcoe_port_send(9), fcoe_fip_send(9)
• fcoe_update_src_mac(9), fcoe_get_src_mac(9), fcoe_lport_config(9), fcoe_netdev_config(9)
• fcoe_shost_config(9), fcoe_fdmi_info(9), fcoe_oem_match(9), fcoe_em_config(9)
• fcoe_if_destroy(9), fcoe_ddp_setup(9), fcoe_ddp_target(9), fcoe_ddp_done(9)
• fcoe_if_create(9), fcoe_if_init(9), fcoe_if_exit(9), fcoe_rcv(9)
• fcoe_alloc_paged_crc_eof(9), fcoe_xmit(9), fcoe_filter_frames(9), fcoe_recv_frame(9)
• fcoe_receive_work(9), fcoe_dev_setup(9), fcoe_dev_cleanup(9), fcoe_device_notification(9)
• fcoe_disable(9), fcoe_enable(9), fcoe_ctlr_enabled(9), fcoe_ctlr_mode(9)
• fcoe_destroy(9), fcoe_destroy_work(9), fcoe_match(9), fcoe_dcb_create(9)
• _fcoe_create(9) (yes, the underscore one, they're cousins 💀), fcoe_ctlr_alloc(9), fcoe_link_ok(9), fcoe_percpu_clean(9)
• fcoe_reset(9), fcoe_hostlist_lookup_port(9), fcoe_hostlist_lookup(9), fcoe_hostlist_add(9)
• fcoe_hostlist_del(9), fcoe_init(9), fcoe_exit(9), fcoe_flogi_resp(9)
• fcoe_logo_resp(9), fcoe_vport_create(9), fcoe_vport_destroy(9), fcoe_vport_remove(9)
• fcoe_vport_disable(9), fcoe_set_vport_symbolic_name(9), fcoe_set_port_id(9)

lowkey the most stacked SEE ALSO I've ever read. iykyk 🔥

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💀 quick reminder bestie: these are all (9) kernel API entries — this is deep-in-the-kernel territory, not your friendly neighbourhood shell command. read the neighbours before you go poking at fcoe_create fr fr.

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and that's the page!! sign-off time 🎀 this one lives under ./drivers/scsi/fcoe, and the page itself is dated October 2026 — so yeah, future-dated, we stan a forward-thinking manpage. slay, bye, go create some interfaces 💅✨🦋