failover_slave_register(9)

✨ failover_slave_register(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 we're doing a full vibe check on failover_slave_register(9) today, and it's literally about registering a slave netdev 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

failover_slave_register — register a slave netdev 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int failover_slave_register (struct net_device *slave_dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• slave_dev — the slave netdev that is being registered 🌸

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this registers a slave device to a failover instance ✨ and the big caveat? only ethernet devices are supported — that's the whole tea, no cap 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./net/core/failover.c
• failover_slave_unregister(9)
• failover_register(9)
• failover_unregister(9)

mwah 💋 cute sign-off: this page is sourced from ./net/core, dated October 2026, and it's all about failover_slave_register(9) 🎀✨