bond_3ad_set_carrier(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a tiny little function but she's important, she's the one deciding whether your bond looks alive or absolutely ghosting everyone. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bond_3ad_set_carrier — set link state for bonding master 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int bond_3ad_set_carrier (struct bonding *bond );

(yes, that space before the closing paren is canon, don't come for her 💅)

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • bond — the bonding structure 💫 that's it. that's the whole argument. she takes one (1) struct and she takes it seriously.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the tea ☕ and it's genuinely simple:

if we have an active aggregator, we're up. if we don't, we're down. periodt 💀 that's the entire vibe check.

she presumes — and this is the important part, bestie, don't skip it 🙈 — that we cannot have an active aggregator if there are no slaves with link up. like, no live slaves = no active aggregator. it's giving main character logic, honestly.

this behavior complies with IEEE 802.3 section 43.3.9 📜 so like, it's not just a vibe, it's standards-compliant ✨ iconic.

she's called by bond_set_carrier 👑 (iykyk).

and the return value? okay so:

  • returns zero if the carrier state does not change (nothing happened, she's unbothered 🌸)
  • returns nonzero if it does change (she ate, and left no crumbs 🔥)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

so like, this function lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c and it is surrounded by her extended friend group 💜 — every single one of these, no cap:

💀 friendly reminder bestie: this one's kernel-side documentation, so treat the source as the source of truth — don't go inventing behavior she didn't promise, okay? 🫶

and that's the whole page, babes 🎀 this little cutie came to you from ./drivers/net/bonding, dated October 2026 — stan the kernel docs, they're literally doing the most 💖✨👑

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