i40e_fdir_filter_exit(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 i40e_fdir_filter_exit(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, section 9 🎀 — yes, the nine, the kernel-functions one. This is the whole tea on i40e_fdir_filter_exit, a tiny little cleanup icon in the Intel i40e driver. Short function, big "closing shift at the end of the night" energy. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

i40e_fdir_filter_exit — Cleans up the Flow Director accounting

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void i40e_fdir_filter_exit (struct i40e_pf *pf );

like, that's it. one function, one arg, no return value. minimalism ate 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • pf — Pointer to PF. that's the whole description, no cap — it's just a pointer to the PF, and honestly she said "pointer to PF" and clocked out 😭

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

This function destroys the hlist where all the Flow Director filters were saved.

and that's genuinely the entire vibe — the Flow Director filters were all chilling in an hlist, and this function is the one that tears that hlist down. clean up your room, queen 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c

and now… the extended family. the whole i40e friend group. i am not skipping a single one of these bestie, we are listing all of them, iykyk 🌈

and that's the whole page babes 💅 go forth and destroy that hlist responsibly 🧚

🌈 source: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e · October 2026 · that's the version and date bestie, page officially closed, mwah 😘💖
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