ice_eswitch_attach_vf(9)

💅 ice_eswitch_attach_vf — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the ice_eswitch_attach_vf(9) page, section 9 of the Kernel API Manual 🎀 this is the whole entire guide to attaching a VF to an eswitch and honestly? it's giving tiny-but-iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_eswitch_attach_vf — attach VF to a eswitch 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_eswitch_attach_vf (struct ice_pf *pf , struct ice_vf *vf );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• pf — pointer to PF structure. yes bestie, a pointer, we love a level of indirection 💅
• vf — pointer to VF structure to be attached. this is the one getting attached, main character energy fr fr 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

During attaching port representor for VF is created. that's it, that's the whole vibe — you attach, and a port representor for the VF gets born into existence ✨ no cap.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

zero on success or an error code on failure 🙈 so like, 0 = slay, anything else = read the error code and cope.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file that lives at:

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

and the whole friend group of related calls, all of them, no gatekeeping:

• ice_eswitch_setup_env(9)
• ice_eswitch_release_repr(9)
• ice_eswitch_setup_repr(9)
• ice_eswitch_cfg_vsi(9)
• ice_eswitch_decfg_vsi(9)
• ice_eswitch_update_repr(9)
• ice_eswitch_port_start_xmit(9)
• ice_eswitch_set_target_vsi(9)
• ice_eswitch_release_env(9)
• ice_eswitch_enable_switchdev(9)
• ice_eswitch_disable_switchdev(9)
• ice_eswitch_mode_set(9)
• ice_eswitch_mode_get(9)
• ice_is_eswitch_mode_switchdev(9)
• ice_eswitch_start_all_tx_queues(9)
• ice_eswitch_stop_all_tx_queues(9)
• ice_eswitch_attach_sf(9)
• ice_eswitch_detach_vf(9)
• ice_eswitch_detach_sf(9)
• ice_eswitch_get_target(9)

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okay that's the page!! 🫶 this lil icon came from the source/version <pink>./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice</pink>, dated October 2026, and it will forever be known as ice_eswitch_attach_vf(9). mwah, stan kernel docs 💜🧚🌸