ixgbe_set_vmdq_82598(9)

👑 ixgbe_set_vmdq_82598 — kernel API manual, section 9, bestie 💅

okay so picture this: you're deep in the Intel ixgbe driver, it's the 82598 era, and you need one specific thing to happen — this function is that thing. It lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, very demure, very kernel-space) and it's literally called ixgbe_set_vmdq_82598. Say it with me. Iconic. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_set_vmdq_82598 — associate a VMDq set index with a rx address 🎀

like. that's the whole job. it takes a VMDq set index and pairs it up with a receive address. matchmaking but for hardware. 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ixgbe_set_vmdq_82598 (struct ixgbe_hw *hw , u32 rar , u32 vmdq );

that's it. three little params and an int coming back at you. no cap. 🔥

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• hw — pointer to hardware struct 🫶 like, the actual hardware. the whole vibe. you hand it over and it's the context for everything else.
• rar — receive address register index to associate with a VMDq index. so this is which rx address register we're linking up — it's the index, bestie, not the address itself, don't get it twisted 😭
• vmdq — VMDq set index ⭐ the other half of the pairing. this is the set index that's getting associated.

so rar + vmdq = the association, and hw is where it all happens. the way that's literally the entire description of the function. slay. 💅

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole 82598 friend group showed up, and honestly? they ate. 🌈

• kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82598.c — that's home base, that's where the source lives, go say hi 👋
• ixgbe_set_pcie_completion_timeout(9)
• ixgbe_init_phy_ops_82598(9)
• ixgbe_start_hw_82598(9)
• ixgbe_get_link_capabilities_82598(9)
• ixgbe_get_media_type_82598(9)
• ixgbe_fc_enable_82598(9)
• ixgbe_start_mac_link_82598(9)
• ixgbe_validate_link_ready(9)
• ixgbe_check_mac_link_82598(9)
• ixgbe_setup_mac_link_82598(9)
• ixgbe_setup_copper_link_82598(9)
• ixgbe_reset_hw_82598(9)
• ixgbe_clear_vmdq_82598(9) — the clear one, yes, the opposite energy, we love a duo 💀
• ixgbe_set_vfta_82598(9)
• ixgbe_clear_vfta_82598(9)
• ixgbe_read_analog_reg8_82598(9)
• ixgbe_write_analog_reg8_82598(9)
• ixgbe_read_i2c_phy_82598(9)
• ixgbe_read_i2c_eeprom_82598(9)
• ixgbe_read_i2c_sff8472_82598(9)
• ixgbe_set_lan_id_multi_port_pcie_82598(9)
• ixgbe_set_rxpba_82598(9)

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lowkey the whole 82598 squad is in that list and not one of them is boring. read them all. iykyk. 📚✨

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and that's the page, bestie — no more notes, no hidden lore, that's genuinely all of it. 🍓

sign-off time: this little beauty comes from the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the footer, that's just how the man page rolls 🙈), dated October 2026, and the manual tag at the bottom is ixgbe_set_vmdq_82598(9) — same as the top, consistent queen. 👑💖