liquidio_destroy_nic_device(9)

💅 liquidio_destroy_nic_device 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual — this one's a little function from the liquidio driver family, and honestly she's giving cleanup era. Let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

liquidio_destroy_nic_device — destroy the NIC device interface, aka the function that says "girl, pack it up, we're done here" 🧹💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void liquidio_destroy_nic_device (struct octeon_device *oct , int ifidx
);

ngl the line break in there is not it, but that's literally how she's written, so we keep her exactly as-is 🫶

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• oct — the octeon device. like, the whole device situation 💅
• ifidx — which interface to destroy. yes bestie, you gotta pick one — this is a per-interface situation, not a group activity 🌸

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: this function handles all the cleanup associated with each interface for an Octeon device. 🧚‍♀️

When does she get called?? Two moments, and both are kinda "wrapping things up" energy:

• when the NIC module is being unloaded 📤
• or if initialization fails during load 😭 — like when the probe was going so well and then. it wasn't.

Either way, per-interface cleanup goes through her. she's the one tidying up the group chat before everyone leaves 💀✨

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay this is the part where the manpage just. lists everyone she knows. it's giving friend group tag in the bio — and we're keeping every single one, no cap 👑

• pcierror_quiesce_device(9)
• cleanup_aer_uncorrect_error_status(9)
• stop_pci_io(9)
• liquidio_pcie_error_detected(9)
• print_link_info(9)
• octnet_link_status_change(9)
• setup_link_status_change_wq(9)
• update_link_status(9)
• liquidio_vf_probe(9)
• octeon_pci_flr(9)
• octeon_destroy_resources(9)
• send_rx_ctrl_cmd(9)
• liquidio_stop_nic_module(9)
• liquidio_vf_remove(9)
• octeon_pci_os_setup(9)
• free_netbuf(9)
• free_netsgbuf(9)
• free_netsgbuf_with_resp(9)
• liquidio_open(9)
• liquidio_stop(9)
• get_new_flags(9)
• liquidio_set_mcast_list(9)
• liquidio_set_mac(9)
• liquidio_xmit(9)
• liquidio_tx_timeout(9)
• setup_nic_devices(9)
• liquidio_init_nic_module(9)
• octeon_device_init(9)

and the kernel file she lives in, bestie, is:

./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c

that's her address. that's where she resides. 🏠💜

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🌈 also, quick shoutout to the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/... — yes it's literally abbreviated with an ellipsis in the footer, and yes we are respecting the ellipsis. periodt. 💅

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okay that's the whole page!! she's short, she's sweet, she destroys NIC device interfaces ONLY when the module unloads or init fails, and she knows a lot of other functions. obsessed, honestly 🌸🦋🎀

signing off from the manual page footer: this was liquidio_destroy_nic_device(9) from ./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/..., dated October 2026 — iykyk, love u, bye bestie!! 💖✨🍓