setup_nic_devices(9)

🌸 setup_nic_devices(9) — the Kernel API Manual moment 🌸

okay so this is setup_nic_devices, straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? she's a little function with a big job and i need you to respect her 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

setup_nic_devices — literally here to set up network interfaces, that's the whole vibe 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int setup_nic_devices (struct octeon_device *octeon_dev );

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• octeon_dev — the octeon device, bestie. that's it. that's the argument 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍓 — this one gets called during init time for each device. every single one. no skipping, no shortcuts, we do the work 😤

it assumes the NIC is already up and running — like, she's not gonna boot it for you, she's gonna assume you already did that part. so if it's not up? that's on you, not her 🙈

and the link information for each interface? that gets passed in through link_info ✨ that's where the good stuff lives.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the kernel file is right here, go read it, i believe in you 👑:

./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c

and now the whole friend group, because these functions all hang out together 💜:

• pcierror_quiesce_device(9)
• cleanup_aer_uncorrect_error_status(9)
• stop_pci_io(9)
• liquidio_pcie_error_detected(9)
• print_link_info(9)
• octnet_link_status_change(9)
• setup_link_status_change_wq(9)
• update_link_status(9)
• liquidio_vf_probe(9)
• octeon_pci_flr(9)
• octeon_destroy_resources(9)
• send_rx_ctrl_cmd(9)
• liquidio_destroy_nic_device(9)
• liquidio_stop_nic_module(9)
• liquidio_vf_remove(9)
• octeon_pci_os_setup(9)
• free_netbuf(9)
• free_netsgbuf(9)
• free_netsgbuf_with_resp(9)
• liquidio_open(9)
• liquidio_stop(9)
• get_new_flags(9)
• liquidio_set_mcast_list(9)
• liquidio_set_mac(9)
• liquidio_xmit(9)
• liquidio_tx_timeout(9)
• liquidio_init_nic_module(9)
• octeon_device_init(9)

like, that's the whole group chat, iykyk 💀

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ok that's the page!! mwah 💋

and for the cute sign-off: this one comes from the source at ./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/..., dated October 2026, and yeah — it's setup_nic_devices(9) all the way down, periodt 🌈⭐