ixgbevf_request_irq(9)

🎀 ixgbevf_request_irq 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ixgbevf_request_irq(9) — yes that's the same name up in the corner, she's just living her best life in two places 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ixgbevf_request_irq — initialize interrupts 🌸

like, the whole personality of this function is getting your interrupts set up, no cap

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbevf_request_irq (struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter );

it returns an int, she takes exactly one thing, that's the vibe 🦋

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• adapter — board private structure. this is the driver's own lil private stash of board info, and yeah she needs it 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what does she actually do? she attempts to configure interrupts using the best available capabilities of the hardware and of the kernel 💖

like — the hardware can do some stuff, the kernel can do some stuff, and she's gonna matchmake them together and pick the fanciest combo both of them can agree on. iconique behavior honestly 👑

key word there being attempts, bestie. she's trying her best 🙈

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the kernel file where all this lives:

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

and now the entire extended friend group, all of them, in order, nobody 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_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)
• ixgbevf_get_hw_dev_name(9)

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ngl that's a lot of cross-references and every single one of them is staying, because we do not gatekeep on this page 🫶

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🌈 the sign-off 🌈

this lil beauty is filed under ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (the path got cut off in the footer, tragic honestly 😭), dated October 2026, and it answers to the name ixgbevf_request_irq(9) — that's a wrap bestie, go configure some interrupts 💅✨🎀