iavf_allocate_ptp_cmd(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 iavf_allocate_ptp_cmd — like, the whole glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for iavf_allocate_ptp_cmd(9) — yes that's the function name AND the manual section number, iykyk 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

iavf_allocate_ptp_cmd — literally just allocates a PTP command message structure. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct iavf_ptp_aq_cmd * iavf_allocate_ptp_cmd (enum virtchnl_ops
v_opcode , u16 msglen );

the way that signature is just sitting there with two args and returning a pointer… iconic. periodt. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • v_opcode — the virtchnl opcode, bestie. it's an enum virtchnl_ops. that's the tea. ☕
  • msglen — length in bytes of the associated virtchnl structure. a u16, so, like, don't get too wild with it. 🙈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what it does is: allocates a PTP command message and pre-fills it with the provided message length and opcode. lowkey simple, highkey essential. it's giving "small function, big main character energy" 👑 like it just hands you a struct that already knows its msglen and its v_opcode. obsessed. 🌈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

returns the allocated PTP command. that's it, that's the return value. 🫶 (struct iavf_ptp_aq_cmd *, in case you were wondering, and you were wondering.)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so the source file lives at Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ptp.c — go read it, fr fr 📖 and then there's the whole friend group of related functions, all of them slaying in their own way:

ngl the whole PTP squad is here and they all ate. 💀 go click through them, bestie, the lore is deep.

and that's a wrap, bestie 🧚💜 this little love letter came out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf, dated October 2026, and it's your girl iavf_allocate_ptp_cmd(9) signing off — mwah 💋🌸

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