i40e_flow_str(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ i40e_flow_str(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about i40e_flow_str — the little cutie that turns a flow type into a string a human can actually read 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_flow_str — literally converts a flow_type into a human readable string 🫶 no cap, that's the whole job.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

const char * i40e_flow_str (struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec *fsp );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • fsp — the flow specification 💅 hand it over and it'll do its thing.

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So rn, only the flow types we actually support are included in here — like, the list is not the whole universe, it's just our faves ✨. And the string value it gives you is trying to match what ethtool would use to configure this flow type. it's giving "same energy, same name" 🎯 iykyk.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

also pls go look at the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c and the struct — and then the whole friend group of siblings, because there are so many and they're all iconic 💀:

ngl bestie, that's a lot of see-also's — but you got this 💪 go read 'em, slay, periodt 🌟

so yeah, that's the whole vibe 🦋 this masterpiece lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e from October 2026, and it's brought to you by the kernel docs girlies — mwah, love u, bye 💜✨🎀

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