i40e_clean_...mming_status(9)

💅 i40e_clean_programming_status 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for i40e_clean_programming_status — manual page, section 9, that's kernel API territory if you didn't know 🧚. This one's a little function with a big job and honestly? It ate. Let's get into it ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

i40e_clean_programming_status — clean the programming status descriptor 💖

Basically the little janitor of the programming status descriptor world. Somebody's gotta do it, and she's iconic for it.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void i40e_clean_programming_status (struct i40e_ring *rx_ring , u64
qword0_raw , u64 qword1 );

Notice the void — she returns nothing, she just does the work and leaves. main character energy honestly 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• rx_ring — the rx ring that has this descriptor. Like, this ring, the one she's looking at. Her ring. her problem 🫶
• qword0_raw — qword0. Fr fr, that's the whole description. It's just qword0 😭
• qword1 — qword1 representing status_error_len in CPU ordering. CPU ordering matters, don't come at me about it 💀

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the vibe: Flow director should handle FD_FILTER_STATUS to check whether its filter programming status was successful or not, and then take actions accordingly. Like, she checks the receipts and acts on what she finds 📋✨

FCoE should also handle its context/filter programming/invalidation status and take actions. Different department, same energy 💅

And then — plot twist — Returns an i40e_rx_buffer to reuse if the cleanup occurred, otherwise NULL. Yes, the synopsis says void, yes, we're all just living with that. The cleanup gives you a buffer back, or NULL if it didn't happen. That's the whole deal 🦋

ngl, if you're calling this expecting a return value and the prototype says void, maybe sit with that for a sec 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Okay this list is long long, but I'm not skipping a single one because every reference matters and I refuse to do them dirty. Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c and then, deep breath:

i40e_fdir(9), i40e_program_fdir_filter(9), i40e_create_dummy_packet(9), i40e_create_dummy_udp_packet(9), i40e_create_dummy_tcp_packet(9), i40e_create_dummy_sctp_packet(9), i40e_prepare_fdir_filter(9), i40e_change_filter_num(9), i40e_add_del_fdir_udp(9), i40e_add_del_fdir_tcp(9), i40e_add_del_fdir_sctp(9), i40e_add_del_fdir_ip(9), i40e_add_del_fdir(9), i40e_fd_handle_status(9), i40e_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(9), i40e_clean_tx_ring(9), i40e_free_tx_resources(9), i40e_get_tx_pending(9), i40e_detect_recover_hung(9), i40e_clean_tx_irq(9), i40e_enable_wb_on_itr(9), i40e_force_wb(9), i40e_update_itr(9), i40e_reuse_rx_page(9), i40e_setup_tx_descriptors(9), i40e_clean_rx_ring(9), i40e_free_rx_resources(9), i40e_setup_rx_descriptors(9), i40e_release_rx_desc(9), i40e_alloc_mapped_page(9), i40e_alloc_rx_buffers(9), i40e_rx_checksum(9), i40e_rx_hash(9), i40e_process_skb_fields(9), i40e_cleanup_headers(9), i40e_can_reuse_rx_page(9), i40e_rx_buffer_flip(9), i40e_get_rx_buffer(9), i40e_put_rx_buffer(9), i40e_process_rx_buffs(9), i40e_construct_skb(9), i40e_build_skb(9), i40e_is_non_eop(9), i40e_run_xdp(9), i40e_xdp_ring_update_tail(9), i40e_update_rx_stats(9), i40e_finalize_xdp_rx(9), i40e_inc_ntp(9), i40e_add_xdp_frag(9), i40e_consume_xdp_buff(9), i40e_clean_rx_irq(9), i40e_buildreg_itr(9), i40e_update_enable_itr(9), i40e_napi_poll(9), i40e_atr(9), i40e_tx_prepare_vlan_flags(9), i40e_tso(9), i40e_tsyn(9), i40e_tx_enable_csum(9), i40e_create_tx_ctx(9), __i40e_maybe_stop_tx(9), __i40e_chk_linearize(9), i40e_tx_map(9), i40e_xmit_xdp_ring(9), i40e_xmit_frame_ring(9), i40e_lan_xmit_frame(9), i40e_xdp_xmit(9)

Okay that's the whole squad. Every single one. You're welcome, iykyk 💜

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and that's the page!! sign-off time — this lil masterpiece lives under ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e and it's dated October 2026, so go off, future bestie 🌟 slay, periodt, see you in the source tree 💖