ixd_adapter_alloc(9)

💅 ixd_adapter_alloc — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to ixd_adapter_alloc(9), part of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short but she's important — she's the one who sets up your adapter's whole little home before anything else can move in 🏠🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

ixd_adapter_alloc — allocate devlink and return the adapter pointer 💖

like, she makes the devlink and hands you back the adapter pointer. two jobs, zero drama. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct ixd_adapter * ixd_adapter_alloc (struct device *dev );

that's the whole summoning circle, no cap 🔮

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device to allocate for 🫶 like, the device you're doing all this for. you gotta tell her which one.

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the vibe 💅 ixd_adapter_alloc allocates a devlink instance for this device, and then returns the private area as the adapter structure.

read that again because it's kind of the whole personality: devlink instance gets allocated ✅, and the private area comes back to you as the adapter structure ✅. that's it, that's the function, and honestly? she ate. 🔥

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• the adapter structure on success 🎉
• NULL on failure 😭

so yeah, always vibe check your return value before you go dereferencing her, iykyk 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixd/ixd_devlink.c
• ixd_fill_dsn(9)
• ixd_fill_device_name(9)
• ixd_devlink_info_get(9)

go read those next, they're the rest of the friend group 💜

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ngl this one's tiny but she's foundational. no adapter, no party. 🍓

okay that's the page!! and for the credits moment 🧚 — this one lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixd, dated October 2026, and the manual page itself is ixd_adapter_alloc(9) from the Kernel API Manual. mwah 💋✨