get_link(9)

🌸 get_link(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🌸

Okay so bestie, this is a page straight outta the Kernel API Manual, and it's about one tiny lil function called get_link. And like… the name is literally the whole plot 💅 it returns the current link state. That's it. That's the vibe.

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✨ NAME ✨

get_link — returns the current link state.

Yeah. Short. Sweet. Iconic. It tells you what's up with the link and then it dips 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void            get_link (struct qed_dev *cdev , struct qed_link_output
*if_link );

Look at that signature, no cap. It returns void, takes a struct qed_dev * and a struct qed_link_output *, and yes the spacing in there is exactly what the page says so don't come for me 🙈

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cdev — the Qed dev pointer. Your lil handle on the device, basically the main character here 👑
• if_link — a structure that gets filled with the current link configuration. Not read from. Filled. It's the output girlie 💖

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Void.

That's it. Nothing comes back. Zero. Nada. The function hands you nothing and you say thank you 😭💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

First up, the kernel file itself — go touch grass in ./include/linux/qed/qed_if.h 🧚

And then the whole friend group, fr fr:

• selftest_interrupt(9)
• selftest_memory(9)
• selftest_register(9)
• selftest_clock(9)
• selftest_nvram(9)
• can_link_change(9)
• set_link(9)
• drain(9)
• update_msglvl(9)
• nvm_flash(9)
• nvm_get_image(9)
• set_coalesce(9)
• set_led(9)
• attn_clr_enable(9)
• db_recovery_add(9)
• db_recovery_del(9)
• recovery_process(9)
• recovery_prolog(9)
• update_drv_state(9)
• update_mac(9)
• update_mtu(9)
• update_wol(9)
• read_module_eeprom(9)
• get_affin_hwfn_idx(9)
• read_nvm_cfg(9)
• read_nvm_cfg_len(9)
• set_grc_config(9)
• qed_sb_ack(9)

Like I said. Whole friend group. Go read them all, I'll wait 💜

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Lowkey reminder bestie: this page gives you the what, not the how — there's no DESCRIPTION, no OPTIONS, no EXAMPLES here. Just name, signature, args, return, and the squad. Don't go inventing extra behaviour, that's not the vibe check we're passing 🔥

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And that's the whole page, mwah 💋 sign-off time: this one lives at ./include/linux/qed, dated October 2026, and it's filed under get_link(9). Slay, bye 🍓✨