ice_vc_reset_vf_msg(9)

💖 ice_vc_reset_vf_msg — the Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the function we're stanning is ice_vc_reset_vf_msg, from ice_vc_reset_vf_msg(9). it's giving "tiny function, big responsibility" energy and honestly? she ate. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_vc_reset_vf_msg — literally the function name is the whole personality here, the original page doesn't even give it a tagline, so we're not making one up fr fr 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ice_vc_reset_vf_msg (struct ice_vf *vf );

so she's void, she takes exactly one thing, and she gives nothing back. mysterious. iconic. 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• vf — pointer to the VF info. that's the one and only thing she needs, bestie 👑

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so here's the vibe: this one gets called from the VF when the VF wants to, like, reset itself. self-care era 💅✨

and here's the part that makes her different from all the other virtchnl messages — the PF driver doesn't send the response back to the VF. no reply, no callback, no "k thx bye". she just... doesn't. not like the other virtchnl messages, and that's on periodt. 🫶

ngl bestie, do not sit around waiting for a response on this one — the original doc is super clear that there isn't one. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the source lives here in the kernel tree:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt/virtchnl.c

and here's the full friend group, every single one, no cap 🧚:

• 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), 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_isvalid_vsi_id(9), ice_vc_get_qos_caps(9), ice_vc_cfg_promiscuous_mode_msg(9), ice_vc_get_stats_msg(9), 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_add_mac_addr_msg(9), ice_vc_del_mac_addr_msg(9), 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), 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)

like, that's the whole group chat and everyone showed up. 🔥

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and that's the page, bestie! 🍓 the source path gets the cute lil truncation treatment as ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and the date on the footer is October 2026, with ice_vc_reset_vf_msg(9) riding shotgun as the version tag. mwah 💜💖🎀