port_name(9)

💅 port_name(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to port_name(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖 this is a lil' helper in the kernel networking world and honestly? it's giving "small but mighty." let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

port_name — returns the string name of a port, that's it, that's the whole gig 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char * port_name (struct adapter *adapter , int pidx );

like, copy it exactly, don't @ me, the spacing is part of the vibe 😭

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• adapter — the adapter. yes. THE adapter. the one and only, your main character 🫶
• pidx — the port index, aka which port we're talking about, the little number that picks your fave 🎯

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So what does it actually do? It returns the string name of the selected port. that's the whole description ngl — it takes your adapter, takes your port index, and hands you back the name as a string 👑

no cap, that's it. short queen behavior 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/adapter.h — literally the file, go look at it, iykyk 📁
• t4_read_reg(9)
• t4_write_reg(9)
• t4_read_reg64(9)
• t4_write_reg64(9)
• t4_os_set_hw_addr(9)
• netdev2pinfo(9)
• adap2pinfo(9)
• netdev2adap(9)

the whole friend group fr fr, go say hi to all of them 🌈

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lowkey important: this page ships alongside the source file ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio... — that's the file path as the manual gives it, don't come for me, i'm just the messenger 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was port_name(9), dated October 2026, straight from the source/version line ending in that ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio... path — mwah, go read the other nine-see pages, they ate 🍓✨🎀