ib_sa_unpack_path(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ib_sa_unpack_path(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for ib_sa_unpack_path — it's short, it's sweet, and it's literally doing one (1) job 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

ib_sa_unpack_path — convert a path record from MAD format to struct ib_sa_path_rec.

that's it. that's the whole personality. it takes the MAD-format version of a path record and unpacks it into the struct ib_sa_path_rec you actually want to hold in your hands 🎀 no cap, that's the entire plot.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ib_sa_unpack_path (void *attribute , struct sa_path_rec *rec );

look at her. two arguments, zero drama. she returns void, she's not coming back with a value, she's just gonna do the thing and dip 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • attribute — honestly? the manpage says "undescribed" 😭 like bestie really left this one on read. it's the attribute, and that's all the source page is willing to tell us. no invented lore, no making stuff up — if the original didn't describe it, i'm not gonna cosplay as someone who knows 🙈
  • rec — also "undescribed" 💀 same situation, same energy. it's the struct sa_path_rec * and the page gives us nothing more. iconic of it, honestly, to say so little with such confidence 👑
ngl, "undescribed" ×2 is highkey the funniest possible documentation outcome and i'm just reporting it faithfully, no embellishment, periodt ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the source file for all of this lives at ./include/rdma/ib_sa.h in the kernel tree 🧚 and here's the whole friend group, all in their (9) era:

notice how ib_sa_pack_path(9) is right there being the packed-to-unpacked mirror twin of this one 🪞 and ib_sa_pack_service(9) / ib_sa_unpack_service(9) are out here doing the same bit for services. main character energy runs in the family fr fr 👑

and that's the page, babes 🫶 it comes to you from the ./include/rdma directory, dated October 2026, and it's filed under the name ib_sa_unpack_path(9) — take care of her, she's tiny but she's doing her best 💜🌸

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