i40e_reset_vf(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 i40e_reset_vf(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for i40e_reset_vf(9), a function that lives in the Linux kernel's i40e driver corner of the world and is genuinely about resetting a VF (a virtual function). This whole thing is formatted as a (9) man page for the kernel's own API docs, so the sections are short and the vibes are extremely driver-internal. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

i40e_reset_vf — and that's it. no description. the original literally leaves the one-liner blank after the dash, so the name is all you get 💀 which honestly is such a mood. the function does what it's called, and the rest of the page is where the actual facts live. keep reading, bestie, we don't gatekeep 🫶

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

bool i40e_reset_vf (struct i40e_vf *vf , bool flr );

it takes two things, gives you back a bool, periodt. ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vf — a pointer to the VF structure. that's the virtual function you're pointing at. main character energy, honestly 👑
  • flr — a bool telling you whether a VFLR was issued or not. yes, it's "VFLR was issued or not", verbatim, that's the whole story 🦋

💖 RETURN 💖

it's giving very literal binary:

  • True — returned if the reset was performed successfully, or if resets are disabled. (two very different roads, same true at the end, slay 🌸)
  • False — returned if a reset is already in progress. not now, bestie, we're busy 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the file this thing actually lives in:

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

and now the entire extended friend group, in order, no skips, no cap — I'm listing every single one because we don't do "etc." here 🧚:

that's the whole list, bestie — every single one, (9) and all. it's giving "the friend group is 95 people and the group chat is unhinged" but that's what the original gives us 🫶

ngl this page is short on purpose — these kernel API pages are just the signature, the args, the return values and the cross-refs. if you want the lore, the ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c file is where the story actually lives 📖✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — bye from the i40e folder, October 2026 💜🎀🦋 this cutie came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e, so shoutout to the i40e kernel docs, mwah 💋🌸

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