eth_header_parse_protocol(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for eth_header_parse_protocol(9) — this function is literally here to extract protocol from L2 header. That's the whole assignment, and it ate. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

__be16 eth_header_parse_protocol (const struct sk_buff *skb );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• skb — the packet to extract the protocol from, periodt. It's a const struct sk_buff *, and that's the entire argument list — no extra params, no surprises, just vibes. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The kernel file is ./net/ethernet/eth.c, and if you're going down the rabbit hole, these are the other pages in the squad:

• eth_header(9)
• eth_get_headlen(9)
• eth_type_trans(9)
• eth_header_cache(9)
• eth_header_cache_update(9)
• eth_prepare_mac_addr_change(9)
• eth_commit_mac_addr_change(9)
• eth_mac_addr(9)
• ether_setup(9)
• alloc_etherdev_mqs(9)
• platform_get_ethdev_address(9)
• nvmem_get_mac_address(9)
• fwnode_get_mac_address(9)
• device_get_mac_address(9)
• device_get_ethdev_address(9)

okay that's the whole page bestie — brought to you by ./net/ethernet, dated October 2026, for eth_header_parse_protocol(9). slay ✨💖