iwpm_send_hello(9)

💖 iwpm_send_hello(9) — bestie edition 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual and this page is all about iwpm_send_hello(9). it literally sends a hello response to iwpmd, and that's the whole main character energy of it 🫶✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

iwpm_send_hello — Send hello response to iwpmd 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int iwpm_send_hello (u8 nl_client , int iwpm_pid , u16 abi_version );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• nl_client — The index of the netlink client. that's the lil' index for the netlink client, no cap.
• iwpm_pid — The pid of the user space port mapper. yep, the pid of the user space port mapper, periodt.
• abi_version — The kernel's abi_version. literally the kernel's ABI version 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code. that's the vibe check: 0 is success, negative is the error code 😭✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/core/iwpm_util.h — go peek, bestie 👑

• iwpm_get_nlmsg_request(9)
• iwpm_free_nlmsg_request(9)
• iwpm_find_nlmsg_request(9)
• iwpm_wait_complete_req(9)
• iwpm_get_nlmsg_seq(9)
• iwpm_add_remote_info(9)
• iwpm_check_registration(9)
• iwpm_set_registration(9)
• iwpm_get_registration(9)
• iwpm_send_mapinfo(9)
• iwpm_mapinfo_available(9)
• iwpm_compare_sockaddr(9)
• iwpm_validate_nlmsg_attr(9)
• iwpm_create_nlmsg(9)
• iwpm_parse_nlmsg(9)
• iwpm_print_sockaddr(9)

cute sign-off time: source/version ./drivers/infiniband/core, dated October 2026, page iwpm_send_hello(9) 💖🎀✨