nfp_net_netdev_close(9)

💅 nfp_net_netdev_close(9) — the group-chat guide ✨

Okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is nfp_net_netdev_close(9). She's the one who gets the call when the device is being downed. Yes, that moment. Grab a snack, this one's short but iconic. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nfp_net_netdev_close — literally the function that's Called when the device is downed, no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int nfp_net_netdev_close (struct net_device *netdev );

That's the whole flex. One function, one argument, returns an int. Clean. Minimalist. She ate. 💅

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• netdev — the netdev structure 🫶. That's it, that's the description of it in the original and honestly? Same energy. It's the netdev structure. The struct. Of the net device. Give her a little wave.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Okay so this is the part where the manpage shows you the whole friend group 💖 — and the source file she lives in:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c 📁

And then, like, all the siblings, besties and adjacent lore in nfp_net-land, in the exact order they were introduced:

• nfp_net_get_fw_version(9), nfp_net_reconfig_post(9), __nfp_net_reconfig(9), nfp_net_mbox_reconfig(9)
• nfp_net_irqs_alloc(9), nfp_net_irqs_assign(9), nfp_net_irqs_disable(9), nfp_net_irq_rxtx(9)
• nfp_net_read_link_status(9), nfp_net_irq_lsc(9), nfp_net_irq_exn(9), nfp_net_aux_irq_request(9)
• nfp_net_aux_irq_free(9), nfp_net_vecs_init(9), nfp_net_rss_write_itbl(9), nfp_net_rss_write_key(9)
• nfp_net_coalesce_write_cfg(9), nfp_net_write_mac_addr(9), nfp_net_clear_config_and_disable(9), nfp_net_set_config_and_enable(9)
• nfp_net_close_stack(9), nfp_net_close_free_all(9), nfp_net_open_stack(9), nfp_net_info(9)
• nfp_net_alloc(9), nfp_net_free(9), nfp_net_rss_key_sz(9), nfp_net_rss_init(9)
• nfp_net_irqmod_init(9), nfp_net_init(9), nfp_net_clean(9)

Thirty-one cross-references, all accounted for, none skipped, she's thorough like that 💀✨

Ngl bestie, if you're here it's probably because you're tracing a teardown path and the device just went down. Stay hydrated, read the sibling pages too, iykyk. 😭🫶

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And that's the page!! Cute little sign-off for the footer: this one's from Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026, and the source is that cursed truncated path ./drivers/net/ethernet/netrono... — yes the footer literally cuts off mid-word, we don't gatekeep the mangled bits here 💖🌈 Byeee! 👑