ib_sa_register_client(9)

💅 ib_sa_register_client (Kernel API Manual, bestie!)

okay so real talk, this is a kernel API manual page and it is short. Like, criminally short. But we're gonna make it cute anyway because that's just who I am 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ib_sa_register_client — literally just: register an SA client. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ib_sa_register_client (struct ib_sa_client *client );

that's it. that's the whole function signature. it returns void, so like… no return value to check, she gives you nothing back and honestly? iconic. 💅

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🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• client — the parameter is -- undescribed -- in the source material 😭 like the docs team said "we'll come back to this" and then never came back. so the struct pointer is called client, it's a struct ib_sa_client *, and that is genuinely all the official word we have on it. no invented lore, no guessing, we respect the mystery 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, assembled 👑

• Kernel file ./include/rdma/ib_sa.h — the header where the actual struct lives, go look there ✨
• struct sa_path_rec_roce(9)
• ib_sa_unregister_client(9) — the breakup arc to this registration arc 💀
• ib_sa_join_multicast(9)
• ib_init_ah_from_mcmember(9)
• ib_sa_pack_path(9)
• ib_sa_pack_service(9)
• ib_sa_unpack_service(9)
• ib_sa_unpack_path(9)

all of these are real, all of them are listed, please go read them instead of asking me, i'm just the messenger 🧚

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bestie heads up: this page gives you zero details on what registering actually does beyond "Register an SA client" and zero description of the client argument. if you need the fine print, that's a ./include/rdma/ib_sa.h field trip, not a me problem 💀

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and that's the whole page!! short and sweet, just like the original 🌈 stay slay, go register your client, and remember: you're doing amazing, sweetie 💖

this lil transmission came from ./include/rdma, dated October 2026 — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 😘🎀