in6_dev_get(9)

in6_dev_get(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to a lil page straight outta the Kernel API Manual — it's giving kernel-core 🎀 and it's all about in6_dev_get. short, iconic, let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

in6_dev_get — get the inet6_dev pointer from a netdevice. literally that's the whole vibe 🦋

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct inet6_dev * in6_dev_get (const struct net_device *dev );

No cap, that's the exact signature, copy it carefully bestie 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the network device, aka the netdevice you're pulling the pointer from 💖 It's typed const struct net_device *dev, and yes, that const is doing its main character thing.

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so here's the tea: this version can be used in any context — yes bestie, any context, no cap. It takes a reference on the inet6_dev, so you're officially holding onto it now 💅

Callers must use in6_dev_put later to release this reference. Like, actually do it — that's the rule, periodt. Don't just take the reference and ghost it 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/net/addrconf.h — __in6_dev_get(9), __in6_dev_stats_get(9), __in6_dev_get_safely(9) 🦋 go read those too, iykyk.

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mwah 💋 this page came from ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it's literally in6_dev_get(9) signing off 🫶✨