ice_vsi_alloc(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ ice_vsi_alloc(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the ice_vsi_alloc(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — this is the one that hands out VSI slots like they're concert tickets 🎟️💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_vsi_alloc — literally allocates the next available struct VSI in the PF. that's the whole vibe ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct ice_vsi * ice_vsi_alloc (struct ice_pf *pf );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

  • pf — the board private structure 🫶 (yes that's the actual name, no cap)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕: ice_vsi_alloc reserves a VSI index from the PF, and then allocates an empty VSI structure without a type. that's it, that's the job. super lowkey.

but — and this is the important part, bestie — that VSI structure is not ready to go. you must initialize it later by calling ice_vsi_cfg. like, it's giving "freshly allocated, not yet dressed for the function" energy 🙈 don't skip that step or it's gonna be a whole mess.

on success it returns a pointer to a VSI. on failure it returns NULL. simple as that 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the full squad, all linked up, all iconic, all listed exactly like so 🫶:

💖 reminder: allocate now, ice_vsi_cfg later. an uninitialized VSI is a mood, not a finished setup. 💅

and that's the page, bestie! 🎀 this lil legend came out of the source tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026 — go forth and alloc responsibly 🌈✨🦋

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