ib_get_client_data(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

ib_get_client_data — grab that IB client context, bestie ✨

(this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, iykyk 🫶)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void * ib_get_client_data (struct ib_device *device , struct ib_client
*client );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • device — the device you wanna pull context for, like, the whole reason you're here 💅
  • client — the client you're getting that context for 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so real talk: ib_get_client_data hands you back the client context data that was set with ib_set_client_data. Simple. Iconic. A little getter, living its truth 🌈

But — and this is the part where you listen — you can only call this while the client is still registered to the device. The moment the ib_client remove callback returns, this is off the table. Like, cannot be called. Periodt 💀 No cap, don't try it.

bestie the lifetime matters here fr — registered client or nothing 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./include/rdma/ib_verbs.h — plus the whole friend group 👑

okay that's the whole page, go touch some kernel code 💅🦋

signed, sealed, delivered from ./include/rdma — October 2026 edition 🎀

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