ixgbe_remove(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the ixgbe_remove(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one is all about the Device Removal Routine — short, iconic, and here to help you understand when the driver needs to let a PCI device go.

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

void ixgbe_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the PCI device information struct, aka the little info package about the device in question 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: ixgbe_remove is called by the PCI subsystem to alert the driver that it should release a PCI device. literally the PCI subsystem tapping the driver on the shoulder like “bestie, it's time.”

this could be caused by a Hot-Plug event, or because the driver is going to be removed from memory. either way, the routine is the cue to release that PCI device. no cap. 💅

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c

the whole squad of related functions, preserved exactly, because we do not skip the crew 💖

• ixgbe_pcie_from_parent(9), ixgbe_read_reg(9), ixgbe_set_ivar(9), ixgbe_get_vf_idx(9), ixgbe_tx_timeout_reset(9), ixgbe_tx_maxrate(9), ixgbe_update_tx_ring_stats(9), ixgbe_update_rx_ring_stats(9)
• ixgbe_pf_handle_tx_hang(9), ixgbe_vf_handle_tx_hang(9), ixgbe_check_illegal_queue(9), ixgbe_handle_mdd_event(9), ixgbe_clean_tx_irq(9), ixgbe_rx_is_fcoe(9), ixgbe_rx_checksum(9), ixgbe_alloc_rx_buffers(9), ixgbe_process_skb_fields(9)
• ixgbe_is_non_eop(9), ixgbe_pull_tail(9), ixgbe_dma_sync_frag(9), ixgbe_cleanup_headers(9), ixgbe_reuse_rx_page(9), ixgbe_add_rx_frag(9), ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(9), ixgbe_configure_msix(9), ixgbe_update_itr(9), ixgbe_write_eitr(9)
• ixgbe_check_overtemp_subtask(9), ixgbe_check_phy_fw_load(9), ixgbe_check_module_power(9), ixgbe_check_link_cfg_err(9), ixgbe_process_link_status_event(9), ixgbe_handle_link_status_event(9), ixgbe_schedule_fw_event(9), ixgbe_aci_event_cleanup(9), ixgbe_handle_fw_event(9)
• ixgbe_irq_enable(9), ixgbe_poll(9), ixgbe_request_msix_irqs(9), ixgbe_intr(9), ixgbe_request_irq(9), ixgbe_irq_disable(9), ixgbe_configure_msi_and_legacy(9), ixgbe_configure_tx_ring(9), ixgbe_configure_tx(9), ixgbe_rss_indir_tbl_entries(9)
• ixgbe_store_key(9), ixgbe_init_rss_key(9), ixgbe_store_reta(9), ixgbe_store_vfreta(9), ixgbe_configure_rscctl(9), ixgbe_configure_rx(9), ixgbe_vlan_strip_disable(9), ixgbe_vlan_strip_enable(9), ixgbe_write_mc_addr_list(9), ixgbe_set_rx_mode(9)
• ixgbe_configure_dcb(9), ixgbe_hpbthresh(9), ixgbe_lpbthresh(9), ixgbe_clean_rx_ring(9), ixgbe_enable_link_status_events(9), ixgbe_disable_link_status_events(9), ixgbe_sfp_link_config(9), ixgbe_non_sfp_link_config(9), ixgbe_check_media_subtask(9)
• ixgbe_clear_vf_stats_counters(9), ixgbe_clean_tx_ring(9), ixgbe_clean_all_rx_rings(9), ixgbe_clean_all_tx_rings(9), ixgbe_set_eee_capable(9), ixgbe_tx_timeout(9), ixgbe_sw_init(9), ixgbe_setup_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_all_tx_resources(9)
• ixgbe_setup_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_setup_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_all_tx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_free_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbe_max_xdp_frame_size(9), ixgbe_change_mtu(9), ixgbe_open(9)
• ixgbe_close(9), ixgbe_update_stats(9), ixgbe_fdir_reinit_subtask(9), ixgbe_check_hang_subtask(9), ixgbe_watchdog_update_link(9), ixgbe_watchdog_link_is_up(9), ixgbe_watchdog_link_is_down(9), ixgbe_watchdog_flush_tx(9), ixgbe_watchdog_subtask(9)
• ixgbe_sfp_detection_subtask(9), ixgbe_sfp_link_config_subtask(9), ixgbe_service_timer(9), ixgbe_check_fw_error(9), ixgbe_service_task(9), ixgbe_set_mac(9), ixgbe_add_sanmac_netdev(9), ixgbe_del_sanmac_netdev(9)
• ixgbe_validate_rtr(9), ixgbe_set_prio_tc_map(9), ixgbe_setup_tc(9), ixgbe_configure_bridge_mode(9), ixgbe_irq_disable_single(9), ixgbe_txrx_ring_disable(9), ixgbe_txrx_ring_enable(9)
• ixgbe_enumerate_functions(9), ixgbe_wol_supported(9), ixgbe_set_fw_version_e610(9), ixgbe_set_fw_version(9), ixgbe_recovery_probe(9), ixgbe_probe(9), ixgbe_io_error_detected(9), ixgbe_io_slot_reset(9), ixgbe_io_resume(9), ixgbe_init_module(9), ixgbe_exit_module(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... · date: October 2026 · mwah 🫶