ixgbe_handle_mdd_x550(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_handle_mdd_x550 — kernel API manual, but make it make sense 🎀

okay so bestie, this page is ixgbe_handle_mdd_x550(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about one thing: dealing with a malicious driver detection event. yes, MDD. the NIC caught a driver being shady and this function is the friend who handles it. no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_handle_mdd_x550 — handle malicious driver detection event 🚨

like, that's the whole vibe. a driver did something sus, MDD flagged it, and this is the cleanup crew.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ixgbe_handle_mdd_x550 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , unsigned long
*vf_bitmap );

returns void, so no "did it work?" report card — it just does the thing and dips. 💅

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure. it's the hardware struct, bestie, the whole struct ixgbe_hw situation, packed with everything this chip needs to know about itself.
  • vf_bitmap — output vf bitmap of malicious vfs 👀. yep — output. this is where you find out which VFs were being little menaces. it's the receipts.
heads up: vf_bitmap is an output param, so don't come crying if your input gets clobbered — that's the assignment, diva. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file herself lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c — go say hi 🧚

and here's the whole friend group, all sixty of them, no skipping, i checked twice 💖:

the MDD trio at the end is the main-character arc btw — ixgbe_enable_mdd_x550(9), ixgbe_disable_mdd_x550(9), ixgbe_restore_mdd_vf_x550(9), and then this page is the handler that ties it together. iykyk. 👑

and that's the page, bestie — go forth and handle those malicious drivers 💜

shoutout to the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yeah it's truncated in the footer, that's just how it is, no i will not be finishing the path for you 🙈) and to October 2026, the date stamp, which is giving future-iconic ⭐ mwah 💋

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