ice_nearest_proto_id(9)

💖 ice_nearest_proto_id(9) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the ice_nearest_proto_id(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is short and sweet and honestly iconic — it's a little helper that goes digging through your parser results looking for the closest protocol. let me walk you through it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ice_nearest_proto_id — find nearest protocol ID ✨ literally that's the whole gig 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bool ice_nearest_proto_id (struct ice_parser_result *rslt , u16 offset ,
u8 *proto_id , u16 *proto_off );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

okay so here's the cast of characters, and every single one of them matters 👑

• rslt — pointer to a parser result instance 🌈 this is the little bag of protocols you're rummaging through
• offset — a min value for the protocol offset 📏 like a "no thanks, too small" threshold, yk?
• proto_id — the protocol ID (output) 🎁 this is where the answer gets handed back to you
• proto_off — the protocol offset (output) 🎁 and this is where the offset of the winner gets handed back

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

From the protocols in rslt, find the nearest protocol that has offset larger than offset. 🔍💫

that's it, that's the vibe — it scans the protocols sitting in rslt and picks out the nearest one whose offset is bigger than the offset you passed in. closest match wins, no cap 🧚‍♀️

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

if true, the protocol's ID and offset 👑 (yes, it literally returns the ID and the offset back out through the output params, slay 💅)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file lives right here: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_parser.c 📁

and now the friend group 💜 — every single one of these is linked, not skipping a single bestie:

ice_parser_sect_item_get(9), ice_parser_create_table(9), ice_imem_dump(9), ice_imem_bm_init(9), ice_imem_bkb_init(9), ice_imem_npkb_init(9), ice_imem_pgkb_init(9), ice_imem_alu_init(9), ice_imem_parse_item(9), ice_imem_table_get(9), ice_metainit_dump(9), ice_metainit_parse_item(9), ice_metainit_table_get(9), ice_bst_tcam_search(9), ice_pg_cam_dump(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_dump(9), ice_pg_cam_action_init(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_key_init(9), ice_pg_cam_key_init(9), ice_pg_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_sp_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_nm_sp_cam_parse_item(9), ice_pg_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_sp_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_nm_sp_cam_table_get(9), ice_pg_cam_match(9), ice_pg_nm_cam_match(9), ice_bst_tcam_dump(9), ice_bst_alu_init(9), ice_bst_pgkb_init(9), ice_bst_npkb_init(9), ice_bst_parse_item(9), ice_bst_tcam_table_get(9), ice_bst_lbl_table_get(9), ice_bst_tcam_match(9), ice_ptype_mk_tcam_dump(9), ice_ptype_mk_tcam_table_get(9), ice_ptype_mk_tcam_match(9), ice_mk_grp_dump(9), ice_mk_grp_table_get(9), ice_proto_grp_dump(9), ice_proto_off_parse(9), ice_proto_grp_parse_item(9), ice_proto_grp_table_get(9), ice_flg_rd_dump(9), ice_flg_rd_parse_item(9), ice_flg_rd_table_get(9), ice_flg_redirect(9), ice_xlt_kb_dump(9), ice_kb_entry_init(9), ice_parse_kb_data(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_sw(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_acl(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_fd(9), ice_xlt_kb_get_rss(9), ice_xlt_kb_flag_get(9), ice_parser_create(9), ice_parser_destroy(9), ice_parser_run(9), ice_parser_result_dump(9), ice_parser_dvm_set(9), ice_parser_vxlan_tunnel_set(9), ice_parser_geneve_tunnel_set(9), ice_parser_ecpri_tunnel_set(9), ice_parser_profile_init(9), ice_parser_profile_dump(9)

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🌸 and that's the whole page bestie, go read some protocols 💖

okay so one last thing before you close the tab — the source lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, it's dated October 2026, and the version tag is just the classic ice_nearest_proto_id(9) 🎀 periodt, bye bestie 🦋💅✨