i40e_virtchnl_link_speed(9)

✨ i40e_virtchnl_link_speed ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual for i40e_virtchnl_link_speed 💅 this one lives in section 9 and it's genuinely such a small little guy but it does a real job, so let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

i40e_virtchnl_link_speed — the glow-up translator that converts an AdminQ link_speed into its virtchnl definition 🦋

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

enum virtchnl_link_speed i40e_virtchnl_link_speed (enum
i40e_aq_link_speed link_speed );

like, that's the whole signature, she's cute, she's compact, she takes exactly one thing and hands you back an enum 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• link_speed — the speed to convert ✨ literally just the speed you want translated, that's it, no secret extra params, no surprises, we love a low-drama argument 🍓

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So here's the tea ☕ this function returns the link_speed in terms of the virtchnl interface. Basically it's the go-between: it takes link_speed as reported by the AdminQ and converts it into the format that's used for talking to virtchnl devices. iykyk — two different worlds, one tiny function holding them together 💀

And listen, because this part matters: if we can't represent the link speed properly, it reports LINK_SPEED_UNKNOWN. no cap. So if you ever get that back, that's your vibe check telling you the speed didn't fit the virtchnl definition and there was nothing honest to say except "unknown" 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_prototype.h
• i40e_is_aq_api_ver_ge(9)
• i40e_is_aq_api_ver_lt(9)
• i40e_is_fw_ver_ge(9)
• i40e_is_fw_ver_lt(9)
• i40e_is_fw_ver_eq(9)

all the sibling functions, the whole friend group, go read them too 📚💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🧚‍♀️✨ this cutie came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e and the version date on it is October 2026 — so yeah, she's dated, she's documented, she's iconic, periodt 💅🎀💖