fcoe_if_to_netdev(9)

💅 fcoe_if_to_netdev(9) — it's giving "Kernel API Manual", section 9 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — yes, the big-girl kernel internals section 🧚 this one's all about fcoe_if_to_netdev, and it's honestly such a little workhorse, like the unpaid intern of the FCoE world but make it iconic ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fcoe_if_to_netdev — literally just: parse a name buffer to get a net device 🦋 that's it, that's the whole job

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct net_device * fcoe_if_to_netdev (const char *buffer );

like, you hand it a string, and it hands you back a struct net_device *. simple as 🫶

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• buffer — the name of the net device 🌈 yeah, the string-y name thing, that's what goes in here, no cap

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👑 RETURN 👑

Returns NULL or a ptr to net_device 💀 so like… prepare yourself for either outcome, bestie. it either finds your device or it doesn't, and there's no in-between.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

lowkey the whole friend group shows up here, so let's give them all their moment 💅

First up, the actual file where this lives — Kernel file ./drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c 🎀

Then the rest of the crew, each one literally serving:

• fcoe_link_speed_update(9)
• __fcoe_get_lesb(9)
• fcoe_get_lesb(9)
• fcoe_ctlr_get_lesb(9)
• fcoe_validate_vport_create(9)
• fcoe_get_wwn(9)
• fcoe_fc_crc(9)
• fcoe_start_io(9)
• fcoe_clean_pending_queue(9)
• fcoe_check_wait_queue(9)
• fcoe_queue_timer(9)
• fcoe_get_paged_crc_eof(9)
• fcoe_transport_lookup(9)
• fcoe_transport_attach(9)
• fcoe_transport_detach(9)
• fcoe_netdev_map_lookup(9)
• libfcoe_device_notification(9)
• fcoe_transport_create(9)
• fcoe_transport_destroy(9)
• fcoe_transport_disable(9)
• fcoe_transport_enable(9)
• libfcoe_init(9)
• libfcoe_exit(9)

like, twenty-three of them. they all ate. no crumbs. 😭🔥

ngl, double-check the little (9) on each one before you go looking — that's the section number and it matters, bestie 🫶

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okay that's the page, mwah 💋 this little cutie is brought to you by the source path ./drivers/scsi/fcoe, and the date stamp is October 2026 ⭐ — the section is 9, the doc is fcoe_if_to_netdev(9), and she's iconic, periodt 👑🌸