ice_devlink...fn_state_set(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes that's the manual name, it's giving official ✨ and we're about to read a whole function together and honestly? it's a cute one.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_devlink_port_fn_state_set — the devlink handler for port state set, aka the lil' function that handles when someone wants to set a port's state 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_devlink_port_fn_state_set (struct devlink_port *port , enum
       devlink_port_fn_state state , struct netlink_ext_ack *extack );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • port — pointer to the devlink port 💖 like, this is the port we're talking about, bestie
  • state — the state to set ⭐ the actual vibe we're switching it to
  • extack — extack for reporting error messages 😭 so if something goes wrong, this is the one that gets to spill the tea

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Activates or deactivates the port. that's it, that's the whole thing 💅 it's giving on/off energy, no cap. literally the main character of port states 🌈

👑 RETURN 👑

zero on success 🎉 or an error code on failure 💀 (iykyk, always check your return values bestie, fr fr)

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

like, that's a whole friend group of functions and they all ate 🔥 go read them too, no skips 🙈

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sign-off time 🎀 this lil' beauty lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (yes the path got cutely truncated, that's how it came) and it's dated October 2026 — so it's from the future, iconic behavior honestly 🦋 and the page itself is ice_devlink...fn_state_set(9), we love a full circle moment 💖 byeee 🫶

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