ipack_get_carrier(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is ipack_get_carrier(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the function that tries to increase the carrier ref. counter of the carrier module. no cap, that's the whole flex 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ipack_get_carrier (struct ipack_device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the mezzanine device which wants to get the carrier. slay, go get that carrier 💅

💖 RETURN 💖

true on success. yes bestie, that's what the page says — the synopsis is all int, but RETURN is giving true, and we are not arguing with the manpage 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./include/linux/ipack.h — plus the whole iconic crew:

• struct ipack_device(9)
• struct ipack_driver_ops(9)
• struct ipack_driver(9)
• struct ipack_bus_ops(9)
• struct ipack_bus_device(9)
• ipack_bus_register(9)
• ipack_bus_unregister(9)
• ipack_driver_register(9)
• ipack_device_init(9)
• ipack_device_add(9)
• DEFINE_IPACK_DEVICE_TABLE(9)
• IPACK_DEVICE(9)

mwah 💋 this cutie lives in ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's ipack_get_carrier(9) — bye bestie, go get that carrier 🫶✨