ice_aq_update_vsi(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

👑 ice_aq_update_vsi(9) 👑

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for ice_aq_update_vsi(9) — yes that's the whole title, it's giving main character energy and honestly? iconic. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're reading a kernel manpage together and it's gonna slay.

✨ NAME ✨

ice_aq_update_vsi —

okay so here's the thing: the NAME line is literally just the function name and then nothing. The original says ice_aq_update_vsi - with the description part empty. So I'm not gonna make something up, because that would be lying and lying is not the vibe. The name is ice_aq_update_vsi, the dash is there, and the rest? mysterious. leaving it blank. 🫶

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

int ice_aq_update_vsi (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_vsi_ctx *vsi_ctx ,
struct ice_sq_cd *cd );

that's it, that's the signature, type it exactly like that or the compiler will simply end you 💀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the HW struct. like, the hardware struct. the actual hardware, in struct form. she's the one who knows things.
  • vsi_ctx — pointer to a VSI context struct. VSI context, but pointed to. 🎀
  • cd — pointer to command details structure, or NULL. either you hand her the details or you hand her nothing, both are valid, she's flexible like that. lowkey queen behavior.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does she do? she updates the VSI context in the hardware, and the operation code is 0x0211 — that's the magic little number right there, no cap. that's the whole description. short, sweet, gets straight to the point. not me being obsessed with a function that does exactly one thing 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the actual kernel file where the code lives — go read the source, bestie, it's right here:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c

and then. AND THEN. the related-functions list. it is long. like, longer than my screen-time report long. every single one is (9), every single one is family, and we're listing all of them because we don't skip entries in this house 💅

like I said. 🫶 long. but we ate, no crumbs left, every single reference accounted for. iykyk.

quick vibe check: everything above is exactly what the page says — nothing added, nothing guessed, no invented behavior. if you need to know how the update actually goes down, the honest answer is "go read ice_switch.c", because this manpage does not tell you and I'm not about to make it up 😤

and that's the page!! ✨ source lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, this is the October 2026 edition, and the page signs off as ice_aq_update_vsi(9) — periodt, mwah 💋🎀🧚

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