ixgbevf_remove(9)

💻✂️ NAME ✨

ixgbevf_remove — the Device Removal Routine, aka the "bestie pack your bags, we're leaving" function 💅

(this one lives in the ixgbevf_remove(9) section of the Kernel API Manual, iykyk 🎀)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbevf_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev );

okay so it returns nothing, takes one thing, and that's the whole vibe 🦋

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the PCI device information struct 🫶 literally the little ID card for the device we're about to say bye to

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕: ixgbevf_remove gets called by the PCI subsystem, and what it's doing is tapping the driver on the shoulder like "hey girl, it's time to release a PCI device." 🔥

And why is this happening? Two reasons, no cap:

1. A Hot-Plug event happened (yes, the dramatic kind 😭), or
2. the driver is about to be removed from memory entirely 💀

either way, the driver is being told to let go. periodt 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c — that's where the magic lives, go read it bestie 👑

and then the whole friend group, in order, no skipping 🫶:

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_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)

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💖 that's genuinely all of them, don't come for me, I counted

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and that's the whole page bestie — brought to you by the source <rainbow>./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i...🧚, dated **October 2026** ⭐ slay, see you in the nextixgbevf_remove(9)` 💜