ice_free_vsi(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_free_vsi(9) — straight outta the Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, gather round, because this one is literally the cleanup icon of the ice driver — the function that frees a VSI context. yes, that VSI context. she's giving "delete the group chat and also remove yourself from the contact list" energy, and honestly? we stan a thorough queen 👑

✨ NAME ✨

ice_free_vsi — free VSI context from hardware and VSI handle list 🧚

like, both places. hardware and the handle list. she does not do half-jobs 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ice_free_vsi (struct ice_hw *hw , u16 vsi_handle , struct
       ice_vsi_ctx *vsi_ctx , bool keep_vsi_alloc , struct ice_sq_cd *cd );

five arguments, one int, zero notes about return values — that's all the manual gives us, and we are not making stuff up, periodt 💀

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • hw — pointer to the HW struct 🖥️ your whole hardware situation, handed over as a pointer.
  • vsi_handle — unique VSI handle 🎫 a u16, and bestie it is unique — that's the whole point of a handle.
  • vsi_ctx — pointer to a VSI context struct 📎 the context baddie in question.
  • keep_vsi_alloc — keep VSI allocation as part of this PF's resources 👑 a bool, and lowkey the main character of this argument list: set it and the VSI allocation stays part of this PF's resources instead of getting yeeted.
  • cd — pointer to command details structure or NULL 📨 or NULL. yes, NULL is a valid vibe here, the manual literally says so.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Free VSI context info from hardware as well as from VSI handle list 🫶

that's it, that's the description. two places, one function, no cap. hardware? freed. handle list? also freed. she ate and left no crumbs 🔥

ngl this is the whole manpage's worth of behaviour, so don't go reading extra features into it — this manual is not out here dropping secret lore 🙈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the kernel file herself lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c 📂 and here is the entire extended friend group, in the exact order the manual introduced them, bestie. do not lose any, they will notice 😭

like, ninety-something cross-references and every single one made it in. i counted with my whole heart 🫶✨

and that's the page!! xoxo, shipped straight from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, October 2026 edition — the ice_free_vsi(9) era, we were all there, iconic 💖🎀🦋

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