ice_vc_fdir_alloc_prof(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🎀 ice_vc_fdir_alloc_prof 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — today's main character is ice_vc_fdir_alloc_prof(9), and honestly? she's giving allocator energy and we're obsessed. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_vc_fdir_alloc_prof — literally just allocate a profile for this filter flow type, no cap 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_vc_fdir_alloc_prof (struct ice_vf *vf , enum ice_fltr_ptype flow
);

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • vf — pointer to the VF structure 🫶 (yes, the whole struct, she's not shy)
  • flow — the filter flow type 🍓 (iykyk)

⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns 0 on success, and other on error. 😭 that's the whole vibe check, fr fr.

ngl bestie, "other on error" is the entire error story here — no fancy negative numbers documented, so don't go inventing any 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 the kernel file

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt/fdir.c — this is where the magic lives, go read it 🌈

🧚 the whole friend group (in order, periodt)

forty-two whole friends, bestie, and we are NOT skipping a single one 🙈💅

mwah 💋 that's the page! sourced straight from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes she's truncated, she's mysterious like that 🦋), dated October 2026, and signed off by ice_vc_fdir_alloc_prof(9) herself — slay, go allocate something iconic ✨🎀

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