ice_vc_add_mac_addr_msg(9)

💖 ice_vc_add_mac_addr_msg(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ice_vc_add_mac_addr_msg(9). Yes the name is a mouthful, no I will not be shortening it, it's giving "my function name is a whole sentence" energy and honestly? iconic. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

It's ice_vc_add_mac_addr_msg. That's it. That's the whole NAME section. No little dash-description, no follow-up sentence, nothing — the manpage just drops the identifier and walks away 💀. So like, do with that what you will, we're moving on.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_vc_add_mac_addr_msg (struct ice_vf *vf , u8 *msg );

That's the whole vibe: returns an int, takes a struct ice_vf * and a u8 *. Two pointers and a dream. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• vf — pointer to the VF info. this is the virtual function's whole little info blob, you're handing it over and saying "here, you deal with it" 💅
• msg — pointer to the msg buffer. the actual message bytes live in here, it's literally a u8 *, no notes.

Both of them? Pointers. Not optional, not cute, just pointers. periodt. 🔥

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the entire description, and I need you to be seated for this: add guest MAC address filter. That's it. That's the whole thing. It adds a MAC address filter for the guest. One line, no elaboration, no lore 😭.

Lowkey the most "I said what I said" documentation moment in the whole tree. We stan a concise queen tho 👑.

fr fr that's the complete description — I'm not gonna invent extra behaviour for you, because bestie, guessing at kernel semantics is how you end up crying at 3am. 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so this is the part where the manpage absolutely ate and left no crumbs — the cross-reference list is long long. Every single one of these is fair game, all in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt/virtchnl.c (well, the file line is down below, hold on, we'll get there 💖):

• broadcast, link state & notify crew — ice_vc_vf_broadcast(9), ice_set_pfe_link(9), ice_vc_notify_vf_link_state(9), ice_vc_notify_link_state(9), ice_vc_notify_reset(9)
• message plumbing, versions & resource stuff — ice_vc_send_msg_to_vf(9), ice_vc_get_ver_msg(9), ice_vc_get_vlan_caps(9), ice_vc_get_vf_res_msg(9), ice_vc_reset_vf_msg(9), ice_vc_isvalid_vsi_id(9), ice_vc_get_qos_caps(9), ice_vc_cfg_promiscuous_mode_msg(9), ice_vc_get_stats_msg(9)
• all the MAC-address besties — ice_can_vf_change_mac(9), ice_vc_ether_addr_type(9), ice_is_vc_addr_legacy(9), ice_is_vc_addr_primary(9), ice_vfhw_mac_add(9), ice_is_mc_lldp_eth_addr(9), ice_vc_can_add_mac(9), ice_vc_add_mac_addr(9), ice_is_legacy_umac_expired(9), ice_update_legacy_cached_mac(9), ice_vfhw_mac_del(9), ice_vc_del_mac_addr(9), ice_vc_handle_mac_addr_msg(9), ice_vc_del_mac_addr_msg(9)
• the VLAN cinematic universe — ice_vf_vlan_offload_ena(9), ice_is_vlan_promisc_allowed(9), ice_vf_ena_vlan_promisc(9), ice_vf_dis_vlan_promisc(9), ice_vf_has_max_vlans(9), ice_vc_process_vlan_msg(9), ice_vc_add_vlan_msg(9), ice_vc_remove_vlan_msg(9), ice_vsi_is_rxq_crc_strip_dis(9), ice_vc_ena_vlan_stripping(9), ice_vc_dis_vlan_stripping(9), ice_vc_query_rxdid(9), ice_vf_init_vlan_stripping(9), ice_vf_outer_vlan_not_allowed(9), ice_vc_set_dvm_caps(9), ice_vc_set_svm_caps(9), ice_vc_get_offload_vlan_v2_caps(9), ice_vc_validate_vlan_tpid(9), ice_vc_is_valid_vlan(9), ice_vc_validate_vlan_filter_list(9), ice_vc_to_vlan(9), ice_vc_vlan_action(9), ice_vc_del_vlans(9), ice_vc_remove_vlan_v2_msg(9), ice_vc_add_vlans(9), ice_vc_validate_add_vlan_filter_list(9), ice_vc_add_vlan_v2_msg(9), ice_vc_valid_vlan_setting(9), ice_vc_valid_vlan_setting_msg(9), ice_vc_get_tpid(9), ice_vc_ena_vlan_offload(9), ice_vc_ena_vlan_stripping_v2_msg(9), ice_vc_dis_vlan_stripping_v2_msg(9), ice_vc_ena_vlan_insertion_v2_msg(9), ice_vc_dis_vlan_insertion_v2_msg(9)
• ops tables, reprs & the final boss — ice_virtchnl_set_dflt_ops(9), ice_vc_repr_add_mac(9), ice_vc_repr_del_mac(9), ice_virtchnl_set_repr_ops(9), ice_is_malicious_vf(9), ice_vc_process_vf_msg(9)

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt/virtchnl.c — that's where the magic lives, go read it, it's giving main character energy 💅

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🌈 the cute sign-off 🌈

and that's the page, bestie! 🫶 source line is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's literally truncated in the footer, that's not me being lazy, that's how it shipped 😭) and the date on this one is October 2026. slay, see you in the next manpage 💖✨🎀