iavf_request_reset(9)

💅 iavf_request_reset 💅

okay so we're in iavf_request_reset, section 9 of the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? this one's a short king. tiny page, huge vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

• iavf_request_reset — that's literally it, that's the whole name 😭 the original page leaves the description blank after the dash, so we're not gonna invent one. no cap, no filler, just the name.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int iavf_request_reset (struct iavf_adapter *adapter );

yes bestie, the weird space before the closing paren is exactly how the original has it — we do not touch the code, ever, periodt 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the adapter structure. that's the one and only thing you hand over. the whole struct. iconic of it.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it do? it requests that the PF reset this VF. that's the tea ☕

and here's the part that matters: no response is expected. you're not sitting around waiting for a reply, you're not polling anything, you're not refreshing your inbox like it's a group chat at 2am. you send the request, you move on. main character energy, lowkey 🙈

ngl, that "no response is expected" line is the entire personality of this function. don't go building a state machine around a reply that is never coming 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the original also points you at the kernel file itself:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_virtchnl.c

and then it drops the entire virtchnl friend group, all 59 of them, and honestly the way that this list does not stop is so real of it. here's the whole squad, exactly as listed, no one left behind 💖:

• iavf_send_pf_msg(9)
• iavf_send_api_ver(9)
• iavf_poll_virtchnl_msg(9)
• iavf_verify_api_ver(9)
• iavf_send_vf_config_msg(9)
• iavf_send_vf_ptp_caps_msg(9)
• iavf_validate_num_queues(9)
• iavf_get_vf_config(9)
• iavf_configure_queues(9)
• iavf_enable_queues(9)
• iavf_disable_queues(9)
• iavf_map_queues(9)
• iavf_set_mac_addr_type(9)
• iavf_add_ether_addrs(9)
• iavf_del_ether_addrs(9)
• iavf_mac_add_ok(9)
• iavf_mac_add_reject(9)
• iavf_vlan_add_reject(9)
• iavf_add_vlans(9)
• iavf_del_vlans(9)
• iavf_set_promiscuous(9)
• iavf_request_stats(9)
• iavf_get_rss_hashcfg(9)
• iavf_set_rss_hashcfg(9)
• iavf_set_rss_key(9)
• iavf_set_rss_lut(9)
• iavf_set_rss_hfunc(9)
• iavf_enable_vlan_stripping(9)
• iavf_disable_vlan_stripping(9)
• iavf_tpid_to_vc_ethertype(9)
• iavf_set_vc_offload_ethertype(9)
• iavf_clear_offload_v2_aq_required(9)
• iavf_send_vlan_offload_v2(9)
• iavf_enable_vlan_stripping_v2(9)
• iavf_disable_vlan_stripping_v2(9)
• iavf_enable_vlan_insertion_v2(9)
• iavf_disable_vlan_insertion_v2(9)
• iavf_virtchnl_send_ptp_cmd(9)
• iavf_print_link_message(9)
• iavf_get_vpe_link_status(9)
• iavf_set_adapter_link_speed_from_vpe(9)
• iavf_get_qos_caps(9)
• iavf_set_quanta_size(9)
• iavf_cfg_queues_quanta_size(9)
• iavf_cfg_queues_bw(9)
• iavf_enable_channels(9)
• iavf_disable_channels(9)
• iavf_print_cloud_filter(9)
• iavf_add_cloud_filter(9)
• iavf_del_cloud_filter(9)
• iavf_add_fdir_filter(9)
• iavf_del_fdir_filter(9)
• iavf_add_adv_rss_cfg(9)
• iavf_del_adv_rss_cfg(9)
• iavf_netdev_features_vlan_strip_set(9)
• iavf_activate_fdir_filters(9)
• iavf_virtchnl_ptp_get_time(9)
• iavf_virtchnl_completion(9)
• iavf_poll_virtchnl_response(9)

iykyk 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and it does not overstay its welcome. go reset that VF and don't wait up for a reply 💜

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sign-off szn: 🌈 this lil rewrite is chillin' in the Kernel API Manual for ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf, dated October 2026. mwah, stan 💋