ixgbevf_probe(9)

💅 ixgbevf_probe(9) — the kernel API manual moment

okay so bestie, this is ixgbevf_probe(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the "wake up babe, new adapter just dropped" function. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbevf_probe — Device Initialization Routine 🔥

No cap, that's the whole vibe: it init's the device.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbevf_probe (struct pci_dev *pdev , const struct pci_device_id
*ent );

it's giving "returns an int, takes two pointers," and honestly? iconic.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the PCI device information struct 💖 like, the whole identity of the device, its papers, its passport
• ent — an entry in ixgbevf_pci_tbl ⭐ this is the matching table entry that said "yep, that's our girl"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Returns 0 on success, negative on failure 😭 (so if you get a negative back, that's your sign that something went awry)

ixgbevf_probe initializes an adapter identified by a pci_dev structure. The way that this function just does the most — three whole things happen here:

• OS initialization 🌈
• configuring of the adapter private structure 🎀
• and a hardware reset 💅

periodt. that's the routine.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c — this is the source file, the mothership, the main character 💜

and now the whole extended friend group, in order, no one left out:

• 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_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)

that's seventy-something references bestie, and every single one of them made the list. we do not skip. we do not summarise. we respect the index 💅✨

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okay and finally the little sign-off moment 🎀 — this page's source is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (the man page keeps it truncated like that, we're not fixing it), and it's dated October 2026. that's the whole footer, mwah 💖 bye bestie, go initialize something