gether_attach_gadget(9)

💅 gether_attach_gadget(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the gether_attach_gadget(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic — it's the glow-up where your network device finally gets a new parent 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gether_attach_gadget — literally reparents a net_device over to the gadget device, no cap 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int gether_attach_gadget (struct net_device *net , struct usb_gadget *g );

that's the whole vibe check right there, bestie 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• net — the network device that's getting reparented, aka the one going through a whole main character custody situation 😭
• g — the target USB gadget device that's about to become the parent, like the new chosen family fr fr 💖

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so the way this works: this function moves the network device so it becomes a child of the USB gadget device in the device hierarchy 🌈 the way it just... relocates itself in the family tree, honestly obsessed.

this is typically done when the function is bound to a configuration — iykyk 👑

and the returns? it returns 0 on success, or a negative error code on failure 💀 so if you see a negative number, that's the universe telling you something went sideways, ngl.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

kernel file ./drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.h — go read the source, bestie, it's giving homework but the useful kind 📚

and the whole friend group, in order:

• gether_set_gadget(9)
• gether_detach_gadget(9)
• gether_set_dev_addr(9)
• gether_get_dev_addr(9)
• gether_set_host_addr(9)
• gether_get_host_addr(9)
• gether_get_host_addr_cdc(9)
• gether_get_host_addr_u8(9)
• gether_set_qmult(9)
• gether_get_qmult(9)
• gether_get_ifname(9)
• gether_set_ifname(9)

like, the entire gether cinematic universe ✨🍓

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quick recap so you don't forget: net gets a new parent, g is the new parent, 0 means slay, negative means 😭. periodt. 💜

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🧚 sign-off time, bestie: this lil page lives in ./drivers/usb/gadget/function, and it's dated October 2026 — so cute, so official, so gether_attach_gadget(9) of it all 🎀💖✨