gether_get_ifname(9)

okay so this is gether_get_ifname(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie it is literally here to grab the interface name for your ethernet-over-usb link. main character energy only. 🦋✨

✨ NAME ✨

gether_get_ifname — get an ethernet-over-usb link interface name

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int gether_get_ifname (struct net_device *net , char *name , int len );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• net — the device representing this link, iykyk 🫶
• name — the place to store the interface name 💖
• len — length of the name buffer, fr fr 📏

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this literally gets the interface name of this ethernet-over-usb link. it returns zero on success — slay — else a negative errno 😭. that's the whole vibe check.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.h 📁
• gether_set_gadget(9)
• gether_attach_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_set_ifname(9)

signed off from ./drivers/usb/gadget/function — October 2026 — for gether_get_ifname(9) 💜🎀✨