ixgbevf_ini...rrupt_scheme(9)

💅 ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme — from the Kernel API Manual ✨

ok so bestie, gather round, because we're about to read a manpage from the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's giving "one function, whole lot of lore." the page header is literally truncated to ixgbevf_ini...rrupt_scheme(9) because even the typesetter ran out of room, and that's iconic of it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme — determine if MSIX is supported and init 🦋

like, that's the whole job description. vibe check the hardware: does it do MSIX? then set the interrupt situation up accordingly. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbevf_init_interrupt_scheme (struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter );

it returns an int, it takes one pointer, and honestly it keeps it cute and simple. 💖

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• adapter — the board private structure we're initializing. that's it. that's the whole parameter list. it's the main character of this function, no cap. 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

ok so listen. this function does not roll alone — it's literally part of a whole friend group. the kernel file it lives in is:

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

and here is the entire squad, every single one of them, in the order the manpage ships them (do not come for me, I'm not reordering a single one): 🧚

• 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_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)
• ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name(9)

no like, that's genuinely all of them. the whole extended family showed up to the function's birthday party and they all brought gifts. 🎁

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lowkey a heads-up: the source line at the bottom of the original is itself cut off as ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... — the path keeps going into ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c, which is the file listed up in SEE ALSO. I'm not inventing anything, that's just where the truncation lands. 💀

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and that's the page!! 🥳 thanks for reading my whole entire tangent about one (1) interrupt scheme function. source is the kernel source tree file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (truncated as shown), from the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026, and the page answers to the name ixgbevf_ini...rrupt_scheme(9). mwah, stan, bye bestie 💜🦋🌸