ice_vc_notify_link_state(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's about one (1) extremely specific little function. Buckle up, it's a short one but it's doing important work 💅

🌸 NAME

ice_vc_notify_link_state — the function that goes and tells all the VFs on a PF what's up with the link status. Like a group chat announcement but for virtual functions 💌

✨ SYNOPSIS

void ice_vc_notify_link_state (struct ice_pf *pf );

that's it. that's the whole signature. it returns void (nothing, nada, she doesn't gossip back) and it takes exactly one thing 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS

  • pf — pointer to the PF structure. yeah, THE PF. the physical function. she's the main character here 👑

🎀 SEE ALSO

okay this is the part where the page just keeps going 😭 — every single one of these, no skips, no cap:

like… that's the whole extended universe right there 🌈 MAC addresses, VLANs, offloads, promiscuous mode, malicious VFs (yes, really), the works. it's giving "I know a guy for every syscall" energy 💀

ngl bestie, if you only remember one thing: this page is short, the SEE ALSO is not. hydrate before reading it 🍓

that's the tea ☕ — page written against the Kernel API Manual, source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes, it's literally truncated like that in the footer, not me being lazy 🙈), October 2026 edition. mwah 💋✨

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