qed_hw_start_fastpath(9)

💖 qed_hw_start_fastpath(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the qed_hw_start_fastpath(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the lil function that gets your fastpath traffic moving again, and the whole vibe is: it only does that if qed_hw_stop_fastpath was actually called first. like, it's not out here starting things that were never stopped, she has manners 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qed_hw_start_fastpath — restart fastpath traffic, only if hw_stop_fastpath was called. that's the whole personality. no notes. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int qed_hw_start_fastpath (struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn );

like yes that's it, one argument, one int, she's lowkey minimal and we respect it 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• p_hwfn — the HW device data. that's your hardware function pointer bestie, hand her the goods and she'll do the thing ✨

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns an Int. that's it, that's the answer, no cap 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file herself lives right here, go say hi:

./drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dev_api.h

and here's the whole entire friend group, all of them, i'm not skipping a single one because they're all iconic in their own way 💜

• qed_init_dp(9)
• qed_init_struct(9)
• qed_resc_free(9)
• qed_resc_alloc(9)
• qed_resc_setup(9)
• qed_hw_init(9)
• qed_hw_timers_stop_all(9)
• qed_hw_stop(9)
• qed_hw_stop_fastpath(9)
• qed_hw_prepare(9)
• qed_hw_remove(9)
• qed_ptt_acquire(9)
• qed_ptt_acquire_context(9)
• qed_ptt_release(9)
• qed_dmae_host2grc(9)
• qed_dmae_host2host(9)
• qed_fw_l2_queue(9)
• qed_fw_vport(9)
• qed_fw_rss_eng(9)
• qed_llh_get_num_ppfid(9)
• qed_llh_set_ppfid_affinity(9)
• qed_llh_set_roce_affinity(9)
• qed_llh_add_mac_filter(9)
• qed_llh_remove_mac_filter(9)
• qed_llh_add_protocol_filter(9)
• qed_llh_remove_protocol_filter(9)
• qed_final_cleanup(9)
• qed_get_queue_coalesce(9)
• qed_set_queue_coalesce(9)
• qed_pglueb_set_pfid_enable(9)
• qed_db_recovery_add(9)
• qed_db_recovery_del(9)

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ok and one tiny main-character note before you go: this whole page comes from the source/version at ./drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed, dated October 2026 🌈 so if anyone asks where you got the tea, that's the receipt 🧚

and that's the page bestie, mwah, go restart that fastpath (but only if you stopped it) 💖💅🔥