gether_set_ifname(9)

💅 gether_set_ifname(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so real quick, the manual name is gether_set_ifname(9) and it lives in the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, we're about to make interface naming make sense. let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gether_set_ifname — set an ethernet-over-usb link interface name

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• net — the device representing this link 🫶
• name — the new interface name, fresh out the group chat 💅
• len — length of name, yes we're counting

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this one sets the interface name of this ethernet-over-usb link. iconic behavior, no cap.

A single terminating newline, if any, is ignored — like, if you accidentally hit enter at the end, it's not gonna be weird about it 🙈. it returns zero on success, else negative errno. periodt.

fr fr, remember: zero = slay, negative errno = something's off 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.h — the lore, iykyk 📖

• 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_get_ifname(9)

and that's the whole vibe check 🧚 this one's brought to you by the fine people under ./drivers/usb/gadget/function, dated October 2026 — mwah, go read the source bestie, it ate 💜⭐