ice_metainit_table_get(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ice_metainit_table_get(9) — bestie, let's build a table ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and the star of the show is ice_metainit_table_get 🫶 ngl the name is giving "very serious kernel business" but it's honestly such a slay little function. Let's get into it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_metainit_table_get — create a metainit table 🎀

like… that's literally the whole job. it makes a metainit table. iconic behaviour, no notes ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct ice_metainit_item * ice_metainit_table_get (struct ice_hw *hw );

so she takes one (1) argument and hands you back a pointer to a struct ice_metainit_item 💜 observe 👑

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

  • hw — pointer to the hardware structure 🧚 this is the hardware vibes handshake; you gotta give her the struct ice_hw * so she knows which hardware we're even talking about 💅

⭐ RETURN ⭐

she returns a pointer to the allocated Metadata initialization table 🌈 that's the whole tea. a pointer. allocated. Metadata initialization table. periodt 💀✨

lowkey important: it's allocated, so somebody's gotta be responsible for it later — that's just how allocation works, bestie 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

fr fr the friend group here is HUGE and every single one of them is invited to the group chat 🫶 also there's a kernel file mentioned right at the top, so let's give that main character energy first:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_parser.c 📁

and now the whole crew, in order, no cap, nobody left out 💖

like… that's a whole roster 😭 but every single one of them is here, we don't gatekeep on this page 💅

🎀 sign-off 🎀

this lil masterpiece lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice and it's dated October 2026 📅 so yeah, future-coded king behaviour 👑 that's the page, bestie — go forth and allocate responsibly 🦋💖✨

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