ixgbevf_obtain_mbx_lock_vf(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ ixgbevf_obtain_mbx_lock_vf(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one is a lil function page from the kernel docs, and it's literally about getting your hands on the mailbox lock, nothing more, nothing less. periodt.

🎀 NAME 🎀

ixgbevf_obtain_mbx_lock_vf — obtain mailbox lock

like, that's it, that's the whole vibe. it grabs the mailbox lock. iconic behaviour honestly 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s32 ixgbevf_obtain_mbx_lock_vf (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

copy that exactly, don't be out here retyping it from memory 😭

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. that's your hardware struct, your main character, the thing you're passing in 💅

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so the whole deal here is: return 0 if we obtained the mailbox lock 🔥 that's the one job. you call it, you get the lock or you don't, and 0 means you got it. no cap.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file that lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/mbx.c — go look at it, iykwim 👀

and then the whole friend group, literally all of these:

like, the entire mailbox cinematic universe 🍓 go read them all, you're welcome 💜

ok and real quick, that lock-obtaining thing is the actual point of the function — if you somehow skipped the description, go back up, it's one line and it matters 😤

and that's the page!! source lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yeah it's truncated in the footer, don't come for me 🙈), it's part of the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026, and the page itself is ixgbevf_obtain_mbx_lock_vf(9). mwah, bye bestie 💋✨

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