i40e_clean_asq(9)

💅 i40e_clean_asq — cleans the Admin send queue, bestie

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual section 9 (that's the kernel dev manual section, iykyk) and it's all about one little function: i40e_clean_asq. she's a cleanup girlie. that's the whole vibe. 🧹✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u16 i40e_clean_asq (struct i40e_hw *hw );

that's it. that's the whole call. one argument. a u16 comes back out. slay. 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🫶 that's the hardware struct you're handing over, no cap.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

literally what it says on the tin: she cleans the Admin send queue. and when she's done doing the cleaning, she returns the number of free desc — that's your count of free descriptors, freshly handed back to you as a u16. main character behaviour fr fr 👑

no tricks, no surprises, no extra options to memorise. it's a one-job icon. periodt.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole adminq friend group, because nobody does it alone 💜:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
• i40e_alloc_adminq_asq_ring(9)
• i40e_alloc_adminq_arq_ring(9)
• i40e_free_adminq_asq(9)
• i40e_free_adminq_arq(9)
• i40e_alloc_arq_bufs(9)
• i40e_alloc_asq_bufs(9)
• i40e_free_arq_bufs(9)
• i40e_free_asq_bufs(9)
• i40e_config_asq_regs(9)
• i40e_config_arq_regs(9)
• i40e_init_asq(9)
• i40e_init_arq(9)
• i40e_shutdown_asq(9)
• i40e_shutdown_arq(9)
• i40e_set_hw_caps(9)
• i40e_init_adminq(9)
• i40e_shutdown_adminq(9)
• i40e_asq_done(9)
• i40e_asq_send_command_atomic_exec(9)
• i40e_asq_send_command_atomic(9)
• i40e_asq_send_command_atomic_v2(9)
• i40e_fill_default_direct_cmd_desc(9)
• i40e_clean_arq_element(9)

💀 heads up: not one of these is optional reading for the vibe check — if you're touching the admin queue, this is your circle. go say hi.

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and that's the page!! 🌈 sign-off time: this one lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, it's dated October 2026, and the page we just read is i40e_clean_asq(9) — go clean that queue, bestie, you're gonna eat 🍓💖✨