i40e_release_rdma_qvlist(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ i40e_release_rdma_qvlist ✨

okay so real talk, bestie — this one is a Kernel API Manual page and it is tiny. Like, the function is called i40e_release_rdma_qvlist and the manpage is out here giving us the barest minimum. No cap. It's giving "turned in the assignment with just my name on it." But we're still gonna read it properly, because even the quiet pages deserve a moment 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_release_rdma_qvlist — and that's it. That's the whole entry. The original NAME section literally just repeats the function name and then leaves the description field empty, so I'm not gonna sit here and invent lore for it, bestie 😭 if the page doesn't say what it does, I'm not gonna make it up. We respect the source.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void i40e_release_rdma_qvlist (struct i40e_vf *vf );

So it's void, meaning nothing comes back to you — no return value, no little gift at the end 🎁 — and it takes exactly one thing. Copy it character for character if you're typing it out, spaces and all, because that's how it's written here. 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

Short list, iconic list:

  • vf — pointer to the VF. That's the whole description, verbatim energy. It's a pointer 🫵 and it points at a VF, which is the type struct i40e_vf. That's all the page gives us, and we are not adding fanfiction.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay THIS is where the page actually goes off 🔥 because the SEE ALSO section is stacked. Feast your eyes, bestie — every single one of these is referenced by the original page, and we're keeping all of them, no skipping, no "etc." shortcuts:

and also, cited as a kernel file:

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c

like, yes ma'am, the whole VF/ virtchnl cinematic universe is here 😭💀 this function is literally sitting in a friend group of 95+ other kernel functions and honestly? main character energy by association 💅

heads up bestie: this page is short on purpose-ish — the original doesn't describe behaviour, parameters beyond "pointer to the VF", or return values, so there's nothing more to spill. If you need the actual semantics, the i40e_virtchnl_pf.c file above is the move 👀

aaaand that's the page!! ✨ thanks for reading the quietest manpage in the i40e friend group with me 🫶 this gem is dated October 2026, it lives in the source tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, and it's filed under the Kernel API Manual — bye bestie, go read a page with more than four lines next time 😭💖🌸

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