ixgbe_negotiate_vf_features(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbe_negotiate_vf_features, and its official one-liner is literally negotiate supported features with VF driver 🫶. that’s the whole name-line vibe, folded in cute so you don’t have to squint at a raw header, iykyk ✨.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbe_negotiate_vf_features (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter , u32
*msgbuf , u32 vf );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — pointer to adapter struct. yes, the main-character struct pointer, periodt 💅.
• msgbuf — pointer to message buffers. it’s giving “here’s where the messages live” 📬.
• vf — VF identifier. literally the VF’s little name tag 🏷️.

🦋 RETURN 🦋

0 on success or -EOPNOTSUPP when operation is not supported. so: slay = 0, not-supported = -EOPNOTSUPP, no cap 😭.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file is right here: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c — iconic source location, ngl 📁✨.

• ixgbe_get_vfs(9)
• ixgbe_set_vf_rx_tx(9)
• ixgbe_send_vf_link_status(9)
• ixgbe_check_mdd_event(9)
• ixgbe_set_all_vfs(9)
• ixgbe_set_vf_link_state(9)
• ixgbe_ndo_set_vf_link_state(9)

made with 💖 from the source/version tag ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and dated October 2026, still serving ixgbe_negotiate_vf_features(9) realness 👑🫶.