iwpm_get_remote_info(9)

💖 iwpm_get_remote_info(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for iwpm_get_remote_info — this one is literally about getting the remote connecting peer address info, and it's giving kernel-netlink main character energy. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

iwpm_get_remote_info — Get the remote connecting peer address info. 🫶 no cap.

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

int iwpm_get_remote_info (struct sockaddr_storage *mapped_loc_addr ,
struct sockaddr_storage *mapped_rem_addr , struct sockaddr_storage
*remote_addr , u8 nl_client );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mapped_loc_addr — the mapped local address of the listening peer, iykyk.
• mapped_rem_addr — the mapped remote address of the connecting peer. 💅
• remote_addr — the place to store the remote address of the connecting peer. iconic output behavior, fr fr.
• nl_client — the index of the netlink client. that's the vibe check for which client we're talking about. 🦋

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

The remote address info is retrieved and provided to the client in remote_addr. 🎀 After that, it is removed from the hash table. periodt — that's the whole flow.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/core/iwpm_util.c — the source file, bestie. And the squad is iwpm_init(9), iwpm_exit(9), iwpm_create_mapinfo(9), iwpm_remove_mapinfo(9). go read those too, they're lowkey part of the lore. 🌸

okay that's the whole page, bestie! 🫶 This one lives in the Kernel API Manual, source path ./drivers/infiniband/core, and the date on the footer is October 2026 — iwpm_get_remote_info(9) out. 💅✨