ice_devlink..._str_to_mode(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's about ice_devlink_local_fwd_str_to_mode — literally the function that takes a local_fwd mode as a string name and hands you back the actual mode. it's giving "translator era" 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ice_devlink_local_fwd_str_to_mode (const char *mode_str );

no cap, that's the whole signature. one string in, one int out 🦋

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • mode_str — the local forwarding mode string, i.e. the name-type thing you're feeding in so it can get converted. that's it, that's the whole argument, she's lowkey simple 💅

🔥 RETURN 🔥

you get back the mode value — slay. but if the string is invalid you get a negative number instead 😭 so like, always vibe-check your return value before you trust it, fr fr. negative = not it.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the actual kernel file this lives in, because sourcing your info is main character energy:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c

and now the friend group, aka every function she's associated with — all of them, in order, no skipping, we don't do that here 🫶

like, that's the whole squad, every single one accounted for 💖

note bestie: ice_devlink_local_fwd_mode_to_str(9) is literally the reverse of this one — she goes mode → string, this page's girl goes string → mode. complementary icons, yk? 🌈

and that's the page!! 🎀 source file path is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes it's truncated in the original, don't come for me 🙈), dated October 2026, and it's the ice_devlink..._str_to_mode(9) page, Kernel API Manual. periodt. 💜✨

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