ixgbe_clear_vmdq_generic(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_clear_vmdq_generic — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

Okay so bestie, picture this: you're deep in the ixgbe driver, everything's going great, and then you need to break up with a VMDq pool index. That's literally this function. It's a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving "quietly essential, no notes" energy. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_clear_vmdq_generic — disassociate a VMDq pool index from a rx address. That's it, that's the whole vibe: un-linking a pool from a receive address. Clean breakup, no drama. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_clear_vmdq_generic (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u32 rar , u32 vmdq );

Yep, that's the whole call. Three args, one int coming back at you. Simple, iconic. 💖

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • hw — pointer to hardware struct. Your main character, the actual hardware you're talking to. 🫶
  • rar — receive address register index to disassociate. Which slot in the RAR lineup we're breaking up with.
  • vmdq — VMDq pool index to remove from the rar. This one's the pool that gets yeeted off that register. 💀
Lowkey important: the pool index specifically gets pulled out of the rar — you're not deleting the whole register, just this one pool's association with it. Keep that straight and you're golden. 🌈

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

So there's like... a lot of siblings. This function hangs out in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c, and here's the entire extended friend group, fr fr — no skipping, I'm listing every single one:

Like I said. A lot. Not me listing all 95 of them by hand 💀 but they're all there, every one, no cap. 🔥

🧚 Sign-off 🧚

That's the whole page, bestie — short and sweet, just like this function. Source situation: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the footer, that's how the manpage rolls, don't @ me 🙈), and it's dated October 2026. Same title top and bottom, ixgbe_clear_vmdq_generic(9), matching header and footer, symmetrical queen. 👑 Go clear some VMDq pools. Slay. 💜

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