ixgbe_request_msix_irqs(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_request_msix_irqs — bestie, this is the one that initializes MSI-X interrupts 💅 (yes, this is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, we're fancy like that 🎀)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbe_request_msix_irqs (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • adapter — the board private structure 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument, she's lowkey simple like that

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Okay so picture this: ixgbe_request_msix_irqs allocates MSI-X vectors and requests interrupts from the kernel. That's the whole vibe ✨ — it's giving "getting the doorbells wired up so the hardware can ring them" 🔥 no cap, that's literally the job description.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🧚 the actual source, bestie

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c 📁 (go read it, it's right there, iykyk)

💖 the whole friend group (all of these are (9) man pages, mwah)

🫶 okay that's the whole page, go forth and request those interrupts bestie. This one came out of the tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (that's the source string, she's a little truncated, we don't gatekeep 🌈) and it's dated October 2026 — yeah, future energy 💀✨ the whole thing is filed under ixgbe_request_msix_irqs(9), periodt 💅
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