ice_is_buffer_metadata(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 NAME 🌸

hey bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat 💅 today's main character is ice_is_buffer_metadata — she's here to determine if a package buffer is a metadata buffer. that's the whole vibe check, no cap ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ice_is_buffer_metadata (struct ice_buf_hdr *buf );

look at her, all tidy and one-line 💖

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • buf — pointer to buffer header. that's it, that's the whole input, she's low-maintenance 🎀

💖 RETURN 💖

whether given buf is a metadata one. yes, literally just that boolean, it's giving "small function, big purpose" 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the source file where this whole situation lives, bestie:

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

and now, the full ensemble cast — every single one of them, no skips, no cuts, we don't do that here 🦋:

like, that's the whole friend group and they ALL showed up to the function's birthday party 🌈🎀

ngl bestie, that's genuinely the entire page — one function, one buffer header, one boolean. short and iconic 👑

and that's a wrap, periodt 💜 this little beauty lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice and the version stamp says October 2026 — go forth and metadata-check responsibly, iykyk 🦋✨🍓

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