octep_vf_open(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ octep_vf_open(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual bestie, and we're talking about octep_vf_open — the function that literally wakes up your octeon network device 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

octep_vf_open — start the octeon network device. that's it, that's the vibe 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int octep_vf_open (struct net_device *netdev );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • netdev — pointer to kernel network device. yes queen, it's a struct net_device *, hand it over 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it actually do? it sets up Tx/Rx queues, it sets up interrupts, and then it enables hardware operation of Tx/Rx queues and interrupts. like, the whole glow-up: queues configured, interrupts configured, hardware go brrr 🔥

(and yeah, the original sentence really does end in .. — twin periods, iconic, no notes 💀)

🌈 RETURN 🌈

  • 0 — on successfully setting up device and bring it up. slay ✨
  • -1 — on any error. not slay 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file lives at:

./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep_vf/octep_vf_main.c

and here's the whole friend group, fr fr — every single one of these:

mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this one shipped from ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... dated October 2026, and the page itself is octep_vf_open(9) — go forth and bring up that device, bestie, you got this 🍓🧚💜

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