get_new_flags(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to get_new_flags(9) from the Kernel API Manual — it's giving tiny kernel helper energy, and we're obsessed ✨💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

get_new_flags — converts a mask that's based on net device flags. no cap, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum octnet_ifflags get_new_flags (struct net_device *netdev );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• netdev — the network device, bestie. that's the one and only argument 💖

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the situation: this routine generates an octnet_ifflags mask from the net device flags it receives from the OS. that's literally the glow-up it's doing ✨🦋

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the linked lore is strong with this one — go peek at the kernel file and all these friends:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
• pcierror_quiesce_device(9)
• cleanup_aer_uncorrect_error_status(9)
• stop_pci_io(9)
• liquidio_pcie_error_detected(9)
• print_link_info(9)
• octnet_link_status_change(9)
• setup_link_status_change_wq(9)
• update_link_status(9)
• liquidio_vf_probe(9)
• octeon_pci_flr(9)
• octeon_destroy_resources(9)
• send_rx_ctrl_cmd(9)
• liquidio_destroy_nic_device(9)
• liquidio_stop_nic_module(9)
• liquidio_vf_remove(9)
• octeon_pci_os_setup(9)
• free_netbuf(9)
• free_netsgbuf(9)
• free_netsgbuf_with_resp(9)
• liquidio_open(9)
• liquidio_stop(9)
• liquidio_set_mcast_list(9)
• liquidio_set_mac(9)
• liquidio_xmit(9)
• liquidio_tx_timeout(9)
• setup_nic_devices(9)
• liquidio_init_nic_module(9)
• octeon_device_init(9)

xoxo, your local kernel girly 💋 — the source/version footer says ./drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/..., dated October 2026, and yes, the page is still get_new_flags(9) 🎀🌟