IBV_GET_DEVICE_NAME(3)

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💖 IBV_GET_DEVICE_NAME — get an RDMA device's name 💖

okay so bestie, this one's from the Libibverbs Programmer's Manual, and it's honestly such a little icon — tiny page, huge main character energy. grab a snack, we're learning how to ask a device what its name is 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, first you gotta let the compiler know what's up:

#include <infiniband/verbs.h>

const char *ibv_get_device_name(struct ibv_device *device);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so ibv_get_device_name() just returns a human-readable name that's associated with the RDMA device device. that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it a device, it hands you back a name you can actually read with your eyeballs instead of some cursed opaque blob 💅

ngl, it's giving "little function that could" and I'm obsessed 🫶

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

  • on success — it returns a pointer to the device name ✨
  • if the request fails — it returns NULL 😭 (yes, check it, no cap)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

your little friend group of related calls, go say hi:

iykyk — you'll lowkey need all three 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

written by the one and only Dotan Barak <dotanba@gmail.com> — thank you for your service, king 🙏✨

periodt. that's the whole page. go get those device names, bestie 💖

sign-off time!! this little cutie came from libibverbs, dated 2006-10-31 — yes, she's a 2006 baby and she's still slaying 🎀💅🦋

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