bond_get_slave_by_id(9)

💅 bond_get_slave_by_id — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, you're in the bonding driver, and you need a transmit slave by its id. that's the whole vibe of this page. it's bond_get_slave_by_id(9), and yes she's a real one 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bond_get_slave_by_id — get xmit slave with slave_id 💫

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct slave * bond_get_slave_by_id (struct bonding *bond , int slave_id );

literally that's it. returns a struct slave *, takes a struct bonding * and an int. clean, iconic, no notes 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• bond — the bonding device that's doing the transmitting, she's the main character here 💖
• slave_id — the slave id you want, and it goes up to slave_cnt-1, and that's the one you'll transmit through 🦋

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💀 DESCRIPTION 💀

okay so here's the tea ☕: this function tries to get the slave with slave_id. but — and this is the important part — in case it fails, it does not just give up and cry about it 😭. nope. it tries to find the first available slave for transmission instead. fallback queen behavior, honestly 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

so like, the whole friend group lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c, and here's everyone in the group chat:

• bond_dev_queue_xmit(9)
• bond_vlan_rx_add_vid(9)
• bond_vlan_rx_kill_vid(9)
• bond_ipsec_dev(9)
• bond_ipsec_add_sa(9)
• bond_ipsec_del_sa(9)
• bond_ipsec_offload_ok(9)
• bond_advance_esn_state(9)
• bond_xfrm_update_stats(9)
• bond_set_dev_addr(9)
• bond_choose_primary_or_current(9)
• bond_find_best_slave(9)
• bond_change_active_slave(9)
• bond_select_active_slave(9)
• bond_xmit_hash(9)
• bond_xmit_hash_xdp(9)
• bond_rr_gen_slave_id(9)
• bond_sk_hash_l34(9)

iykyk 💅

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ngl bestie, if you're reading this in the source tree, you're already doing amazing. go get that slave 🧚

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and that's the page!! this one's from the ./drivers/net/bonding corner of the world 🌸, dated October 2026, and it's bond_get_slave_by_id(9) signing off — mwah, slay, periodt 💜🎀