ib_register_event_handler(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ib_register_event_handler(9). This one is literally ib_register_event_handler — register an IB event handler. That's the whole name, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

no cap, the signature is exactly this, character for character:

void ib_register_event_handler (struct ib_event_handler *event_handler
);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• event_handler — the handler you wanna register. That's it, bestie, that's the argument.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so ib_register_event_handler registers an event handler that will be called back when asynchronous IB events occur — as defined in chapter 11 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification. Iconic. This callback occurs in workqueue context, okay? Write it down, iykyk. 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

First, the kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/core/device.c — and then the whole squad, in order:

• rdma_dev_access_netns(9)
• rdma_dev_has_raw_cap(9)
• ib_device_put(9)
• _ib_alloc_device(9)
• ib_dealloc_device(9)
• ib_port_immutable_read(9)
• ib_register_device(9)
• ib_unregister_device(9)
• ib_unregister_device_and_put(9)
• ib_unregister_driver(9)
• ib_unregister_device_queued(9)
• ib_register_client(9)
• ib_unregister_client(9)
• ib_get_client_nl_info(9)
• ib_set_client_data(9)
• ib_unregister_event_handler(9)
• ib_query_port(9)
• ib_device_set_netdev(9)
• ib_query_netdev_port(9)
• ib_device_get_by_netdev(9)
• ib_enum_roce_netdev(9)
• ib_enum_all_roce_netdevs(9)
• ib_device_enable_gid_updates(9)
• ib_device_disable_gid_updates(9)
• ib_query_pkey(9)
• ib_modify_device(9)
• ib_modify_port(9)
• ib_find_gid(9)
• ib_find_pkey(9)
• ib_get_net_dev_by_params(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./drivers/infiniband/core; date: October 2026; page tag: ib_register_event_handler(9). byeee, go register that handler ✨