ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit(9)

💅 ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, the Kernel API Manual, we're in the big leagues now, and this little page is about ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit, a function that literally just tidies up after your network adapter when it's heading out the door. no cap, that's the whole gig 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit — clear out the adapter's debugfs entries

like, it's the cleanup crew 🧹 for one adapter's debugfs stuff. adapter's leaving? it makes sure nothing's left lying around. iconic behaviour honestly.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

notice it returns void — it gives you nothing back, it just does the thing and dips 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• adapter — the adapter that is exiting. that's it. that's the whole parameter. it's the one packing its bags 🧳 and you're handing it to the function so it knows which adapter's debugfs entries need to go poof ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c
• ixgbe_dbg_reg_ops_read(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_reg_ops_write(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_read(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_write(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_init(9)
• ixgbe_dbg_exit(9)

go read the whole friend group fr fr, they all hang out in the same file 🫶

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💀 friendly reminder: this page is short because the function is short. nothing sketchy, nothing hidden — the entire documented job is "clear out the adapter's debugfs entries." don't go inventing extra powers for it, bestie 🙈

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and that's the tea 🍓 this page came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026, so jot that down in your notes app and slay the rest of your kernel reading session 💖✨🌈