ice_test_staterr(9)

🦋 ice_test_staterr(9) 🦋

okay bestie, this little page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's about ice_test_staterr(9) — a tiny helper with main character energy 💅.

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💖 NAME 💖

ice_test_staterr — tests bits in Rx descriptor status and error fields. That's it, that's the gig, and it ate. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ice_test_staterr (__le16 status_err_n , const u16 stat_err_bits );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• status_err_n — Rx descriptor status_error0 or status_error1 bits. peek the field, bestie 👀
• stat_err_bits — value to mask. masking moment 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this function does some fast chicanery in order to return the value of the mask, which is really only used for boolean tests. periodt. It's a quick check, not a whole dramatic arc 😭.

The status_error_len doesn't need to be shifted because it begins at offset zero. the way that detail is just sitting there being true 💀.

no invented lore here: the mask value is really only used for boolean tests, and that offset-zero shift note is exactly the vibe 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.h

Also, go give these icons a look:

• ice_is_non_eop(9)
• ice_build_tstamp_desc(9)
• ice_get_vlan_tci(9)
• ice_xdp_ring_update_tail(9)
• ice_set_rs_bit(9)

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — source/version is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, date is October 2026, ilysm, go test those bits 🫶✨