ice_create_tunnel(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_create_tunnel (9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, we're deep in the Intel ice driver guts right now and this is the function that says "hey hardware, there's a tunnel, pls notice it." the manual is literally the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and we're about to read it together like it's a group chat 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_create_tunnel — and the description line is just… empty. nothing. not a single word after the dash. she said "my name is enough" and honestly? main character energy. periodt 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ice_create_tunnel (struct ice_hw *hw , u16 index , enum
ice_tunnel_type type , u16 port );

like, four things go in, an int comes out. the vibes are immaculate, the signature is copied exactly, do not touch it 🙈

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. yeah, the whole hardware struct, she's holding everything together, we love her 💖
  • index — device table entry. that's the one you're poking at 👑
  • type — type of tunnel. what kind of tunnel we're making, iykyk 🌀
  • port — port of tunnel to create. the actual port number, no cap 🔥

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so here's the tea: you create a tunnel by updating the parse graph in the parser. that's the move. and how do we do that? bestie, we build a package buffer with the tunnel info inside it, and then we issue an update package command. that's it, that's the whole little ritual 🌈

it's giving "fill out the form, hand it to the parser, let her cook." slay 💅

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

🧚 Kernel file

  • ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_flex_pipe.c

💜 the whole squad (yes, all of them, no skipping)

like I said. the whole squad. every single name is here, nothing dropped, we don't do that here 🫶

ngl this page keeps the vibes light so the facts stay loud: every flag, arg, and reference is intact. don't come for me, come for the parser 🌸

and that's the page!! this absolute gem lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice and the copy in your hands is dated October 2026 — go forth and create tunnels, bestie, you're gonna eat 💖✨🎀🦋💅

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