netdev_get_pauseparam(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

Ok bestie, welcome to the netdev_get_pauseparam(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, we’re deep in kernel API land and it’s lowkey iconic ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

netdev_get_pauseparam — get flow control parameters. That’s the whole assignment, bestie 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the exact signature, no remixing:

void netdev_get_pauseparam (struct net_device *dev , struct
       ethtool_pauseparam *pause );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • dev — Network device. The net_device you’re checking out 🫶
  • pause — Ethtool PAUSE settings data structure. This is the PAUSE settings data structure, periodt 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This procedure returns the PAUSE control flow settings. That’s the tea: it returns the PAUSE control flow settings, and that’s the whole description ✨ No extra lore, no cap.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c — the whole ksz884x.c cinematic universe is linked here, and we are not skipping a single one 😭

The struct squad 🦋:

  • struct ksz_hw_desc(9)
  • struct ksz_sw_desc(9)
  • struct ksz_dma_buf(9)
  • struct ksz_desc(9)
  • struct ksz_desc_info(9)
  • struct ksz_mac_table(9)
  • struct ksz_vlan_table(9)
  • struct ksz_port_mib(9)
  • struct ksz_port_cfg(9)
  • struct ksz_switch(9)
  • struct ksz_port_info(9)
  • struct ksz_hw(9)
  • struct ksz_port(9)
  • struct ksz_timer_info(9)
  • struct ksz_shared_mem(9)
  • struct ksz_counter_info(9)
  • struct dev_info(9)
  • struct dev_priv(9)

The function fam 🔥:

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 — source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel · date: October 2026 🎀

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