tb_path_port_on_path(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is tb_path_port_on_path(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ and it answers one very specific question: Does the path go through certain port? That’s literally the whole vibe check 🔥

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the exact signature, copied with love 💅

bool tb_path_port_on_path (const struct tb_path *path , const struct
tb_port *port );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• path — the path to check. Like, the whole route bestie 🛣️
• port — the switch to check. yes, the manpage says “switch” here and we’re keeping it exactly like that 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the function goes over all the hops on path and checks if port is any of them 👀 that’s it, that’s the whole thing.

Direction does not matter. fr fr, it literally doesn’t matter which way you’re going 🌀

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💅 RETURN 💅

true if port is on the path, and false otherwise. periodt 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/thunderbolt/path.c
• tb_path_discover(9)
• tb_path_alloc(9)
• tb_path_free(9)
• tb_path_deactivate_hop(9)
• tb_path_activate(9)
• tb_path_is_invalid(9)

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made with 🫶 from the ./drivers/thunderbolt corner of the kernel, dated October 2026 — this page is tb_path_port_on_path(9), and yes she ate 💅✨