igbvf_request_irq(9)

💅 igbvf_request_irq(9)

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and today's main character is igbvf_request_irq(9) ✨ get comfy bestie, we're configuring interrupts 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

igbvf_request_irq — initialize interrupts 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int igbvf_request_irq (struct igbvf_adapter *adapter );

like, that's the whole signature, no cap 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• adapter — the board private structure 🌈 iykyk, it's the driver's own little private corner of data and we're handing it over 🎀

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so what it does: this function attempts to configure interrupts using the best available capabilities of the hardware and the kernel 👑 literally bestie, it looks at what the hardware can do, looks at what the kernel can do, and goes "say less, I gotchu" 💅 not me being obsessed with a graceful fallback honestly 😭

fr fr it's "attempts" — the manpage says attempts, so we say attempts, we're not out here inventing guarantees 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, in order, no one left out 🫶

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
• 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_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_remove(9)
• igbvf_init_module(9)
• igbvf_exit_module(9)

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okay that's the page bestie 💖 quick sign-off so nothing gets lost: this one's sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (that's the truncated path as it appears in the footer, slay) and it's dated October 2026, and yeah the footer still calls it igbvf_request_irq(9) because of course it does 🎀 periodt ✨💜