qed_vf_check_mac(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 qed_vf_check_mac(9) — the "can this VF have a MAC or not" check ✨

Okay bestie, so this one is a kernel API manual page — yes, like the real one, from the Kernel API Manual set — and the function living its main character life here is qed_vf_check_mac. Its whole job? Finding out whether a VF is allowed to set a MAC address. That's it. That's the vibe check. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

qed_vf_check_mac — literally just checks if the VF can set a MAC address, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool qed_vf_check_mac (struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn , u8 *mac );

That's the whole signature, bestie — copy it exactly, don't get creative with it 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

Two of them, both kind of important ngl:

  • p_hwfn — the HW device data. This is the hardware function thingy (the struct qed_hwfn *), your main character struct 💜
  • mac — the Mac. Yep, that's the u8 * right there. The MAC. 🍓

⭐ RETURN ⭐

bool.

That's it. That's the return type. A bool — true-or-false energy, iconic, no further elaboration in the source and we're not about to invent some 🙈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Everything below is exactly what the original lists, so scroll responsibly — there are like thirty of these and every single one is staying 💀

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.h — the hive, the mothership, the place where it all lives 👑

And then the whole friend group, in order:

Lowkey the double-underscore ones are the introvert versions of the link getters, iykyk 🌈

That's the whole page, bestie — slay 💅

Sign-off time: this cutie lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed, it's dated October 2026, and the page you just read is qed_vf_check_mac(9). Obsessed. 🦋✨

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