ice_repr_create_sf(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is ice_repr_create_sf(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and the NAME vibe is literally: add representor for SF VSI ✨ bestie, that’s the whole assignment.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct ice_repr * ice_repr_create_sf (struct ice_dynamic_port *sf );

no cap, that’s the exact signature — do not come for me about the spacing, it’s iconic as-is 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sf — the SF you’re creating a port representor on 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the way this function is lowkey doing one very specific thing: it sets the correct representor type for the SF and the functions pointer. that’s it, that’s the tea 🍓

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

on success you get the created port representor back, and otherwise you get an error 😭 fr fr, that’s the whole return situation.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file for this one is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_repr.c — go off, source file 👑

also pls check out these icons:

• ice_repr_inc_tx_stats(9)
• ice_repr_inc_rx_stats(9)
• ice_repr_get_stats64(9)
• ice_netdev_to_repr(9)
• ice_repr_vf_open(9)
• ice_repr_vf_stop(9)
• ice_repr_sp_stats64(9)
• ice_is_port_repr_netdev(9)
• ice_repr_reg_netdev(9)
• ice_repr_destroy(9)
• ice_repr_create(9)
• ice_repr_create_vf(9)
• ice_repr_start_tx_queues(9)
• ice_repr_stop_tx_queues(9)

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and that’s the page, bestie 🧚 this cutie signs off from the ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice source/version, dated October 2026 — stay slay, stay hydrated, and may your representors always be correctly typed 💜✨