gether_set_host_addr(9)

💖 gether_set_host_addr(9) 💖

okay so real talk, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's literally the glow-up your ethernet-over-usb link's host address has been waiting for 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

gether_set_host_addr — bestie, this is the one that initializes an ethernet-over-usb link with the host address 🌸

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

int gether_set_host_addr (struct net_device *net , const char *host_addr );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• net — the device representing this link, she's the main character here 👑
• host_addr — the eth address of the host, no cap 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what this does is it sets the host-side Ethernet address of this ethernet-over-usb link — but only if host_addr is correct. that's the vibe check ✨ if the new address is incorrect, it returns a negative errno 😭 like it's not gonna let you embarrass yourself, periodt.

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🔥 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_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)

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ngl bestie, if you're poking around u_ether.h anyway, the whole gether/gether_get friend group above is right there — go say hi 💅

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k that's the whole page 💖 this lives under ./drivers/usb/gadget/function, and the version we're serving you is the October 2026 one — slay, go set some host addresses responsibly 🧚‍♀️⭐