mlx5hws_action_get_type(9)

💅 mlx5hws_action_get_type — NAME

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this little icon is mlx5hws_action_get_type — and literally all it does is get the action type. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum mlx5hws_action_type mlx5hws_action_get_type (struct mlx5hws_action *action );

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• action — the action you wanna get the type of. like, hand it over and it tells you what it is. no cap. 👑

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🌸 RETURN 🌸

it gives you back the action type. iconic behavior honestly 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

first up, the source of truth — the Kernel file:

./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/mlx5hws.h

and then the whole friend group, fr fr 🌈:

• mlx5hws_is_supported(9)
• mlx5hws_context_open(9)
• mlx5hws_context_close(9)
• mlx5hws_context_set_peer(9)
• mlx5hws_table_create(9)
• mlx5hws_table_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_table_get_id(9)
• mlx5hws_table_set_default_miss(9)
• mlx5hws_match_template_create(9)
• mlx5hws_match_template_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_action_template_create(9)
• mlx5hws_action_template_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_matcher_create(9)
• mlx5hws_matcher_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_matcher_attach_at(9)
• mlx5hws_matcher_resize_set_target(9)
• mlx5hws_matcher_resize_rule_move(9)
• mlx5hws_rule_create(9)
• mlx5hws_rule_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_rule_action_update(9)
• mlx5hws_action_get_dev(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_drop(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_default_miss(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_table_num(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_match_range(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_flow_sampler(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_vport(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_tag(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_counter(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_reformat(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_modify_header(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_aso_meter(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_pop_vlan(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_push_vlan(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_dest_array(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_insert_header(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_remove_header(9)
• mlx5hws_action_create_last(9)
• mlx5hws_action_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_send_queue_poll(9)
• mlx5hws_send_queue_action(9)
• mlx5hws_debug_dump(9)
• mlx5hws_bwc_matcher_create(9)
• mlx5hws_bwc_matcher_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_bwc_rule_create(9)
• mlx5hws_bwc_rule_destroy(9)
• mlx5hws_bwc_rule_action_update(9)

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go read them all bestie, i'm not kidding, they're all connected 🧚

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and that's the page!! it came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellano... (yes the footer really does trail off like that, we don't gatekeep 🙈), dated October 2026, and it lives under the manual name mlx5hws_action_get_type(9). mwah 💋 periodt. 🔥