ice_is_switchdev_running(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

ice_is_switchdev_running — bestie's lil vibe check for whether switchdev is actually configured 👀

so this is a kernel API manual page (ice_is_switchdev_running(9), section 9, slay) and honestly? it's a whole mood. it's the function that tells you if switchdev is up and running, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ice_is_switchdev_running (struct ice_pf *pf );

ok so it returns a bool (the O.G. true/false situation 💅) and takes exactly one thing. very demure, very mindful.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • pf — pointer to the PF structure. that's it. that's the whole argument. your main character parameter 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this function returns true if the eswitch mode is set to DEVLINK_ESWITCH_MODE_SWITCHDEV and switchdev is configured. both things. together. like a duo that ate and left no crumbs 🔥

if that's not the case? it returns false. simple as. literally nothing else to report, and honestly? we love a function that knows exactly what it is 💜

ngl the key detail here is the and — the mode being DEVLINK_ESWITCH_MODE_SWITCHDEV alone is not enough. switchdev has to actually be configured too, or you're getting false, periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file this lives in, iconic:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h

and a whole friend group of related functions, all of them linking out from the same page, all of them pulling up in the group chat 😭:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚✨ this little gem lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice and the version date on it is October 2026 — like, she's from the future and she's still serving 💅👑 bye mwah 🫶💖

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