ixgbe_send_vf_link_status(9)

💖 ixgbe_send_vf_link_status — the ixgbe_send_vf_link_status(9) page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly it's short but it matters — it's the little function that claps back at a VF when the VF asks "hey what's the link doing rn". Let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbe_send_vf_link_status — literally just sends link status data over to the VF. that's the whole job. icon behavior 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

three things in, one int out. no cap, that's it 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• adapter — pointer to the adapter struct. your main character struct, the one holding everything together 👑
• msgbuf — pointer to the message buffers. where the message-y stuff lives 🎀
• vf — the VF identifier. which VF we're talking to, bestie, gotta know who you're replying to 💌

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so this is the reply for the IXGBE_VF_GET_PF_LINK_STATE mbox command — and what it does is send the link status data. that's the vibe check on the link, delivered back to the VF. periodt. ⭐

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💜 RETURN 💜

• 0 on success — slay, we did it ✨
• -EOPNOTSUPP when the operation is not supported — aka not me finding out this isn't supported 😭

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
• ixgbe_get_vfs(9)
• ixgbe_set_vf_rx_tx(9)
• ixgbe_negotiate_vf_features(9)
• ixgbe_check_mdd_event(9)
• ixgbe_set_all_vfs(9)
• ixgbe_set_vf_link_state(9)
• ixgbe_ndo_set_vf_link_state(9)

go read those if you're obsessed with the VF side of things, iykyk 🦋

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ok that's the whole page and yes it's short but every single flag, argument, return value and cross-reference is in there — no details left behind, fr fr 💀

signed off with love from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... — October 2026, and this is the ixgbe_send_vf_link_status(9) page saying bye bestie, stay hydrated and may all your operations be supported 🍓💖