iavf_vf_parse_hw_config(9)

✨ iavf_vf_parse_hw_config ✨

Okay bestie, so this one lives in the Kernel API Manual — it's a kernel function from the iavf driver family, and honestly it's giving "quiet little helper that does the important homework" energy. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iavf_vf_parse_hw_config — the function that takes what the PF told your VF and actually makes your hw struct make sense out of it 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void iavf_vf_parse_hw_config (struct iavf_hw *hw ,
                              struct virtchnl_vf_resource *msg );

It returns void, so like… no return value, no drama, no exit codes. It just does the thing. Slay. 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🫶 like, the actual struct getting filled in here.
• msg — pointer to the virtual channel VF resource structure 💌 that's the message from the PF carrying all the deets.

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So here's the vibe: you've got a VF resource message from the PF, right? This function takes that message and populates the hw struct with appropriate information. That's the whole job. It's a parse-y little matchmaker between the message and the hardware struct, no cap. 🧚

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_common.c — that's where the source action happens, iykyk 🔥

And the whole friend group of related functions, all here, all iconic:

• iavf_stat_str(9)
• iavf_debug_aq(9)
• iavf_check_asq_alive(9)
• iavf_aq_queue_shutdown(9)
• iavf_aq_get_set_rss_lut(9)
• iavf_aq_set_rss_lut(9)
• iavf_aq_get_set_rss_key(9)
• iavf_aq_set_rss_key(9)
• iavf_aq_send_msg_to_pf(9)

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💜 that's the whole page babes, every flag, every function, nothing skipped 💜

Little sign-off moment: this one comes from the kernel path ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf, dated October 2026 — so yeah, future-coded of it. Periodt. 🌟