igb_request_msix(9)

💅 igb_request_msix — the igb_request_msix(9) page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (that's the manual name, no cap) and it's all about one lil function. it lives in the land of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb and it's dated October 2026 — we love a timestamped queen. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

igb_request_msix — literally just "Initialize MSI-X interrupts." that's the whole vibe. short, sweet, iconic. 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int igb_request_msix (struct igb_adapter *adapter );

it returns an int, it takes one pointer, that's it. she's lowkey minimal. 🫶

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🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• adapter — the board private structure you're gonna initialize. that's your girl, your main character struct, the thing getting set up. 👑

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what does she do, you ask? igb_request_msix allocates MSI-X vectors and requests interrupts from the kernel. both. she's multitasking. 💅

like, the vectors get allocated, the interrupts get requested, and the kernel is looped in. that's the whole deal, fr fr. no hidden lore, no extra steps. 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay bestie, buckle up, because this list is long and honestly it ate. 🎀

first up, the kernel file herself:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c

and then every single one of these — yes, all of them, i would never skip one, that would be so not slay of me:

igb_get_i2c_data(9), igb_set_i2c_data(9), igb_set_i2c_clk(9),
igb_get_i2c_clk(9), igb_get_hw_dev(9), igb_init_module(9),
igb_exit_module(9), igb_cache_ring_register(9), igb_write_ivar(9),
igb_configure_msix(9), igb_free_q_vector(9), igb_reset_q_vector(9),
igb_free_q_vectors(9), igb_clear_interrupt_scheme(9),
igb_set_interrupt_capability(9), igb_alloc_q_vector(9),
igb_alloc_q_vectors(9), igb_init_interrupt_scheme(9),
igb_request_irq(9), igb_irq_disable(9), igb_irq_enable(9),
igb_release_hw_control(9), igb_get_hw_control(9),
igb_config_tx_modes(9), igb_setup_tx_mode(9), igb_configure(9),
igb_power_up_link(9), igb_power_down_link(9), igb_check_swap_media(9),
igb_up(9), igb_set_i2c_bb(9), igb_set_fw_version(9), igb_init_mas(9),
igb_init_i2c(9), igb_probe(9), igb_remove_i2c(9), igb_remove(9),
igb_probe_vfs(9), igb_sw_init(9), __igb_open(9), __igb_close(9),
igb_setup_tx_resources(9), igb_setup_all_tx_resources(9),
igb_setup_tctl(9), igb_configure_tx_ring(9), igb_configure_tx(9),
igb_setup_rx_resources(9), igb_setup_all_rx_resources(9),
igb_setup_mrqc(9), igb_setup_rctl(9), igb_setup_srrctl(9),
igb_configure_rx_ring(9), igb_configure_rx(9), igb_free_tx_resources(9),
igb_free_all_tx_resources(9), igb_clean_tx_ring(9),
igb_clean_all_tx_rings(9), igb_free_rx_resources(9),
igb_free_all_rx_resources(9), igb_clean_rx_ring(9),
igb_clean_all_rx_rings(9), igb_set_mac(9), igb_write_mc_addr_list(9),
igb_set_rx_mode(9), igb_has_link(9), igb_check_lvmmc(9),
igb_watchdog(9), igb_update_ring_itr(9), igb_update_itr(9),
igb_tx_timeout(9), igb_get_stats64(9), igb_change_mtu(9),
igb_update_stats(9), igb_set_uta(9), igb_intr_msi(9), igb_intr(9),
igb_poll(9), igb_clean_tx_irq(9), igb_reuse_rx_page(9),
igb_add_rx_frag(9), igb_is_non_eop(9), igb_cleanup_headers(9),
igb_process_skb_fields(9), igb_alloc_rx_buffers(9), igb_mii_ioctl(9),
igb_ioctl(9), igb_io_error_detected(9), igb_io_slot_reset(9),
igb_io_resume(9), igb_rar_set_index(9), igb_read_i2c_byte(9),
igb_write_i2c_byte(9)

like i said. long. but we got through it together. 🫶

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ngl there's no BUGS section, no warnings, no exit statuses on this one — she's a short page and she knows it. 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 signed off from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb, dated October 2026, igb_request_msix(9) forever and always. periodt. 💜🧚‍♀️