ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name(9)

🌸 ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual (yes, the kernel dev pages, section 9, we're in the big leagues now 💅). This one's a tiny little function but she's important — she's the one that hands back the device name string that the hardware layer uses when it wants to print debugging information. Like, she's literally the name tag at the debugging party 🎀.

No cap, that's the whole vibe. Short page, iconic function.

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✨ SYNOPSIS

char * ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• hw — pointer to the private hardware struct. that's it, that's the whole guest list 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO

First up, the kernel file she lives in:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c

and then her entire friend group (she knows everyone, fr fr — the whole ixgbevf extended universe 👑):

ixgbevf_set_ivar(9), ixgbevf_tx_timeout(9), ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(9), ixgbevf_rx_skb(9), ixgbevf_rx_checksum(9), ixgbevf_process_skb_fields(9), ixgbevf_is_non_eop(9), ixgbevf_alloc_rx_buffers(9), ixgbevf_cleanup_headers(9), ixgbevf_reuse_rx_page(9), ixgbevf_add_rx_frag(9), ixgbevf_poll(9), ixgbevf_write_eitr(9), ixgbevf_configure_msix(9), ixgbevf_update_itr(9), ixgbevf_msix_clean_rings(9), ixgbevf_request_msix_irqs(9), ixgbevf_request_irq(9), ixgbevf_irq_disable(9), ixgbevf_irq_enable(9), ixgbevf_configure_tx_ring(9), ixgbevf_configure_tx(9), ixgbevf_init_rss_key(9), ixgbevf_configure_rx(9), ixgbevf_set_rx_mode(9), ixgbevf_set_features(9), ixgbevf_clean_rx_ring(9), ixgbevf_clean_tx_ring(9), ixgbevf_clean_all_rx_rings(9), ixgbevf_clean_all_tx_rings(9), ixgbevf_set_num_queues(9), ixgbevf_set_interrupt_capability(9), ixgbevf_alloc_q_vector(9), ixgbevf_free_q_vector(9), ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors(9), ixgbevf_free_q_vectors(9), ixgbevf_reset_interrupt_capability(9), ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme(9), ixgbevf_clear_interrupt_scheme(9), ixgbevf_sw_init(9), ixgbevf_update_stats(9), ixgbevf_service_timer(9), ixgbevf_check_hang_subtask(9), ixgbevf_watchdog_update_link(9), ixgbevf_watchdog_link_is_up(9), ixgbevf_watchdog_link_is_down(9), ixgbevf_watchdog_subtask(9), ixgbevf_service_task(9), ixgbevf_free_tx_resources(9), ixgbevf_free_all_tx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_tx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_all_tx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_setup_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_free_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_free_all_rx_resources(9), ixgbevf_open(9), ixgbevf_close_suspend(9), ixgbevf_close(9), ixgbevf_set_mac(9), ixgbevf_change_mtu(9), ixgbevf_probe(9), ixgbevf_remove(9), ixgbevf_io_error_detected(9), ixgbevf_io_slot_reset(9), ixgbevf_io_resume(9), ixgbevf_init_module(9), ixgbevf_exit_module(9)

like I said. everyone. 🌈

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ngl bestie, this page is short but she ate. read the whole friend list if you want the full lore 💀

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kisses, this was the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name(9), straight out of ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes that's the truncated path, the manpage footer cut her off mid-sentence 😭), dated October 2026. periodt. 🦋✨🎀