ice_get_channels(9)

💖 ice_get_channels(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual entry, bestie 💖

Hiii okay so welcome to ice_get_channels(9) — yep, that's a section 9 kernel API page, the kind that lives in the Kernel API Manual 🌸. This one's a tiny lil' cutie with a big job, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🫶.

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✨ NAME ✨

ice_get_channels — grab the channels you've got right now and the max ones the hardware can actually support 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ice_get_channels (struct net_device *dev , struct ethtool_channels
*ch );

Look at that. Returns void, takes two pointers, zero drama 💅.

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• dev — the network interface device structure 🖧. Like, the actual netdev we're snooping on.
• ch — the ethtool channel data structure 📊. This is the lil' container the info gets dropped into, iykyk.

Two args, that's it. Not me expecting something spicier and getting two pointers 😭.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Okay so this is the part where the page goes full main-character and name-drops its entire friend group 🌈. Every single one, no cap:

• ice_ethtool_get_maxspeed(9)
• ice_is_serdes_muxed(9)
• ice_get_port_topology(9)
• ice_get_tx_rx_equa(9)
• ice_get_extended_regs(9)
• ice_active_vfs(9)
• ice_link_test(9)
• ice_eeprom_test(9)
• ice_reg_pattern_test(9)
• ice_reg_test(9)
• ice_lbtest_prepare_rings(9)
• ice_lbtest_disable_rings(9)
• ice_lbtest_create_frame(9)
• ice_lbtest_check_frame(9)
• ice_diag_send(9)
• ice_lbtest_receive_frames(9)
• ice_loopback_test(9)
• ice_intr_test(9)
• ice_self_test(9)
• ice_set_fec_cfg(9)
• ice_set_fecparam(9)
• ice_get_fecparam(9)
• ice_nway_reset(9)
• ice_get_priv_flags(9)
• ice_set_priv_flags(9)
• ice_mask_min_supported_speeds(9)
• ice_linkmode_set_bit(9)
• ice_phy_type_to_ethtool(9)
• ice_get_settings_link_up(9)
• ice_get_settings_link_down(9)
• ice_get_link_ksettings(9)
• ice_speed_to_aq_link(9)
• ice_ksettings_find_adv_link_speed(9)
• ice_setup_autoneg(9)
• ice_set_phy_type_from_speed(9)
• ice_set_link_ksettings(9)
• ice_set_rxnfc(9)
• ice_get_rx_ring_count(9)
• ice_get_rxnfc(9)
• ice_get_pauseparam(9)
• ice_set_pauseparam(9)
• ice_get_rxfh_key_size(9)
• ice_get_rxfh_indir_size(9)
• ice_get_rxfh(9)
• ice_set_rxfh(9)
• ice_get_combined_cnt(9)
• ice_get_valid_rss_size(9)
• ice_vsi_set_dflt_rss_lut(9)
• ice_set_channels(9)
• ice_get_wol(9)
• ice_set_wol(9)
• ice_get_rc_coalesce(9)
• ice_get_q_coalesce(9)
• __ice_get_coalesce(9)
• ice_set_rc_coalesce(9)
• ice_set_q_coalesce(9)
• ice_print_if_odd_usecs(9)
• __ice_set_coalesce(9)
• ice_get_module_info(9)
• ice_get_module_eeprom(9)
• ice_get_port_fec_stats(9)
• ice_get_fec_stats(9)
• ice_ethtool_reset(9)
• ice_repr_ethtool_reset(9)
• ice_set_ethtool_safe_mode_ops(9)
• ice_set_ethtool_repr_ops(9)
• ice_set_ethtool_ops(9)

That's the whole squad 💀. Also, the kernel file itself is here and it's iconic:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c

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🧚 bestie reminder: this is the kernel API page, so keep the (9) suffix on every single one of those references or the man reader will not find them, fr fr.

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Okay that's genuinely the whole page, it really is a short one 🙈. Written and sourced out of the kernel tree at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026 — mwah, stan the Intel ice driver, periodt 💜🦋🎀