igbvf_remove(9)

💅 igbvf_remove — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — it's igbvf_remove(9) and it's honestly kind of a short one, so we're gonna get through it together, bestie 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

igbvf_remove — the Device Removal Routine 💀 (yes that's the actual name, and yes it goes as hard as it sounds)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void igbvf_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev );

that's it. that's the whole signature. one argument, returns nothing, no cap ✨

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• pdev — the PCI device information struct 🦋 this is the lil info packet about the PCI device we're talking about, and it's the only thing you hand over. that's the whole vibe check.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🔥 — igbvf_remove is called by the PCI subsystem to alert the driver that it should, like, release a PCI device. the driver gets the heads up, and it goes "okay bestie, letting go ✌️".

and why would that happen? two iconic reasons, according to the page:

• it could be caused by a Hot-Plug event 👑 (the device physically showed up/left, main character energy)
• or because the driver is going to be removed from memory 💀 (the driver itself is getting unloaded, so it has to let go of the device first)

that's literally the entire description, no extra lore, no hidden mechanics, we're not inventing anything here 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

this is the part where the page just. lists everyone. the whole friend group. the entire group chat 💅

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c — that's where the actual code lives, iykyk
• igbvf_desc_unused(9)
• igbvf_receive_skb(9)
• igbvf_alloc_rx_buffers(9)
• igbvf_clean_rx_irq(9)
• igbvf_setup_tx_resources(9)
• igbvf_setup_rx_resources(9)
• igbvf_clean_tx_ring(9)
• igbvf_free_tx_resources(9)
• igbvf_clean_rx_ring(9)
• igbvf_free_rx_resources(9)
• igbvf_update_itr(9)
• igbvf_clean_tx_irq(9)
• igbvf_configure_msix(9)
• igbvf_set_interrupt_capability(9)
• igbvf_request_msix(9)
• igbvf_alloc_queues(9)
• igbvf_request_irq(9)
• igbvf_irq_disable(9)
• igbvf_irq_enable(9)
• igbvf_poll(9)
• igbvf_set_rlpml(9)
• igbvf_configure_tx(9)
• igbvf_setup_srrctl(9)
• igbvf_configure_rx(9)
• igbvf_set_multi(9)
• igbvf_set_uni(9)
• igbvf_configure(9)
• igbvf_sw_init(9)
• igbvf_open(9)
• igbvf_close(9)
• igbvf_set_mac(9)
• igbvf_update_stats(9)
• igbvf_watchdog(9)
• igbvf_tx_timeout(9)
• igbvf_change_mtu(9)
• igbvf_io_error_detected(9)
• igbvf_io_slot_reset(9)
• igbvf_io_resume(9)
• igbvf_io_prepare(9)
• igbvf_io_reset_done(9)
• igbvf_probe(9)
• igbvf_init_module(9)
• igbvf_exit_module(9)

like, every single one of them. full roster. periodt 💅

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚 no options, no env vars, no exit statuses, no bug notes — she's short and she knows it ✨

lowkey a slay that a whole kernel function page is this chill tbh 🌈

⭐ cute lil sign-off: this one's sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes, the page really does cut it off like that 😭) and it's dated October 2026, and the title up top was igbvf_remove(9) 🌸 mwah, go free that PCI device 💜