ice_add_eth_mac(9)

💅 ice_add_eth_mac(9) — Kernel API Manual 💅

Okay so bestie, welcome to the ice_add_eth_mac page from the Kernel API Manual — it’s the little kernel API that adds an ethertype and MAC based filter rule. periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_add_eth_mac — add ethertype and MAC based filter rule. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_add_eth_mac (struct ice_hw *hw , struct list_head *em_list );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure. 🖥️💅
• em_list — list of ether type MAC filter, MAC is optional. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this function is not out here filling in your filter entries for you — no cap. It requires the caller to populate the entries in the filter list with the necessary fields (including flags to indicate Tx or Rx rules). The way that’s just the contract, bestie. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c — and the whole reference friend group is right here, iykyk:

ice_init_def_sw_recp(9), ice_aq_get_sw_cfg(9), ice_aq_add_vsi(9),
ice_aq_free_vsi(9), ice_aq_update_vsi(9), ice_is_vsi_valid(9),
ice_get_hw_vsi_num(9), ice_get_vsi_ctx(9), ice_save_vsi_ctx(9),
ice_clear_vsi_q_ctx(9), ice_clear_vsi_ctx(9), ice_clear_all_vsi_ctx(9),
ice_add_vsi(9), ice_free_vsi(9), ice_update_vsi(9),
ice_cfg_rdma_fltr(9), ice_aq_alloc_free_vsi_list(9), ice_aq_sw_rules(9),
ice_aq_add_recipe(9), ice_aq_get_recipe(9),
ice_update_recipe_lkup_idx(9), ice_aq_map_recipe_to_profile(9),
ice_aq_get_recipe_to_profile(9), ice_init_chk_recipe_reuse_support(9),
ice_alloc_recipe(9), ice_free_recipe_res(9), ice_release_recipe_res(9),
ice_get_recp_to_prof_map(9), ice_get_recp_frm_fw(9),
ice_fill_sw_info(9), ice_fill_eth_hdr(9), ice_fill_sw_rule(9),
ice_add_marker_act(9), ice_create_vsi_list_map(9),
ice_update_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_create_vsi_list_rule(9),
ice_create_pkt_fwd_rule(9), ice_update_pkt_fwd_rule(9),
ice_update_sw_rule_bridge_mode(9), ice_add_update_vsi_list(9),
ice_find_rule_entry(9), ice_find_vsi_list_entry(9),
ice_add_rule_internal(9), ice_remove_vsi_list_rule(9),
ice_rem_update_vsi_list(9), ice_remove_rule_internal(9),
ice_vlan_fltr_exist(9), ice_add_mac(9), ice_add_vlan_internal(9),
ice_add_vlan(9), ice_remove_eth_mac(9), ice_rem_sw_rule_info(9),
ice_rem_adv_rule_info(9), ice_cfg_dflt_vsi(9), ice_vsi_uses_fltr(9),
ice_check_if_dflt_vsi(9), ice_remove_mac(9), ice_remove_vlan(9),
ice_add_entry_to_vsi_fltr_list(9), ice_add_to_vsi_fltr_list(9),
ice_determine_promisc_mask(9), ice_remove_promisc(9),
ice_clear_vsi_promisc(9), ice_set_vsi_promisc(9),
ice_set_vlan_vsi_promisc(9), ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr(9),
ice_remove_vsi_fltr(9), ice_alloc_res_cntr(9), ice_free_res_cntr(9),
ice_share_res(9), ice_find_recp(9), ice_change_proto_id_to_dvm(9),
ice_prot_type_to_id(9), ice_fill_valid_words(9),
ice_fill_fv_word_index(9), ice_find_free_recp_res_idx(9),
ice_calc_recp_cnt(9), ice_add_sw_recipe(9), ice_subscribe_recipe(9),
ice_subscribable_recp_shared(9), ice_add_adv_recipe(9),
ice_dummy_packet_add_vlan(9), ice_find_dummy_packet(9),
ice_fill_adv_dummy_packet(9), ice_fill_adv_packet_tun(9),
ice_fill_adv_packet_vlan(9), ice_find_adv_rule_entry(9),
ice_adv_add_update_vsi_list(9), ice_add_adv_rule(9),
ice_replay_vsi_fltr(9), ice_adv_rem_update_vsi_list(9),
ice_rem_adv_rule(9), ice_rem_adv_rule_by_id(9),
ice_replay_vsi_adv_rule(9), ice_replay_vsi_all_fltr(9),
ice_rm_all_sw_replay_rule_info(9)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, date: October 2026 ✨