octep_vf_remove(9)

💅 octep_vf_remove(9) — like, the whole vibe

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ today's main character is octep_vf_remove(9), and she's here to clean up after the party 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

octep_vf_remove — Remove Octeon PCI device from driver control. yeah, she's the one who shows up at the end with a trash bag and a broom 🧹💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void octep_vf_remove (struct pci_dev *pdev );

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. no return value, no drama, just vibes 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• pdev — PCI device structure of the Octeon device. that's the device, bestie, the one we're saying bye to 👑

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so the actual job?? Cleanup all resources allocated for the Octeon device. all of them. every last one. not me being thorough 😭✨

she also unregisters from network device and disables the PCI device — like closing the group chat AND turning off read receipts at the same time. icon behaviour, ngl 🫶

no cap, this is pure teardown energy. nothing survives. periodt 🔥

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

literally the whole friend group 🫶 — go read these too, iykyk:

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep_vf/octep_vf_main.c 📁
• octep_vf_alloc_ioq_vectors(9)
• octep_vf_free_ioq_vectors(9)
• octep_vf_enable_msix_range(9)
• octep_vf_disable_msix(9)
• octep_vf_ioq_intr_handler(9)
• octep_vf_request_irqs(9)
• octep_vf_free_irqs(9)
• octep_vf_setup_irqs(9)
• octep_vf_clean_irqs(9)
• octep_vf_update_pkt(9)
• octep_vf_enable_ioq_irq(9)
• octep_vf_napi_poll(9)
• octep_vf_napi_add(9)
• octep_vf_napi_delete(9)
• octep_vf_napi_enable(9)
• octep_vf_napi_disable(9)
• octep_vf_open(9)
• octep_vf_stop(9)
• octep_vf_iq_full_check(9)
• octep_vf_start_xmit(9)
• octep_vf_get_stats64(9)
• octep_vf_tx_timeout_task(9)
• octep_vf_tx_timeout(9)
• octep_vf_device_setup(9)
• octep_vf_device_cleanup(9)
• octep_vf_probe(9)
• octep_vf_init_module(9)
• octep_vf_exit_module(9)

(and yes, i listed all of them, because skipping entries is not the move 🙈✨)

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lowkey important: this page comes from ./drivers/net/ethernet/marvell... and it's dated October 2026 — so like, future vibes only 💀🌸

and that's the tea, bestie — octep_vf_remove(9), cleaned up, signed off, and absolutely slaying in the Kernel API Manual 🎀👑💖