ice_fltr_prepare_eth(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

👑 ice_fltr_prepare_eth — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 💅

Okay so bestie, welcome to the ice_fltr_prepare_eth(9) page ✨ — yes that's the kernel API manual, and yes we're about to make ethertype filters make sense. Sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_fltr_prepare_eth — literally the function that adds or removes an ethertype filter. That's it, that's the whole vibe check 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_fltr_prepare_eth (struct ice_vsi *vsi , u16 ethertype , u16 flag
, enum ice_sw_fwd_act_type action , int (*eth_action)(struct ice_vsi *,
struct list_head *) );

Not me pasting the whole signature exactly because precision is the moment 👑 copy it character for character, no cap.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • vsi — pointer to the VSI struct, aka the main character of this whole operation 💅
  • ethertype — the ethertype of the packet we're filtering, iykyk 🦋
  • flag — the direction of the packet, Tx or Rx, pick your lane bestie 🌈
  • action — the action to be performed when the filter matches, slay 🔥
  • eth_action — pointer to the add-or-remove ethertype function, the little helper doing the actual work 🙈

🔎 SEE ALSO 🔎

Lowkey the whole friend group shows up here, so let's give them all their moment ⭐

The kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_fltr.c — go say hi 🧚

All of them. Every single one. We don't skip the boring parts here, we give them full main character energy 👑

no cap bestie, that's every argument, every function and the file path exactly as they were — I just made it cute 💜

And that's the page! This one comes courtesy of the ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice directory, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ice_fltr_prepare_eth(9) if you ever need to find it again 🎀✨ bye bestie, go filter some ethertypes 💖

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