ver_to_u64(9)

✨ ver_to_u64(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — it's ver_to_u64, and it's like, way simpler than it sounds, i promise 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

ver_to_u64 — Convert an internal ipe_policy_version to a u64. literally that's the whole job. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u64 ver_to_u64 (const struct ipe_policy *const p );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — Policy to extract the version from. that's it, that's the only thing you hand it 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture the bits, and remember LSB is index 0 (like, don't come for me, that's just how it is):

• [48,32] → Major
• [32,16] → Minor
• [16, 0] → Revision

so it's giving nested little slices of a number, each one holding a piece of the version. iconic honestly. 🧚

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

returns a u64 version of the embedded version structure. no cap, that's the whole return. 💅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./security/ipe/policy.c
• ipe_free_policy(9)
• ipe_update_policy(9)
• ipe_new_policy(9)
• ipe_set_active_pol(9)

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ok bestie one tiny vibe check: keep those SEE ALSO names exactly as written, they're real functions and they will absolutely notice if you misspell them 🙈

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🌈 and that's the page!! brought to you by the <rainbow>./security/ipe</rainbow> crew, October 2026 edition — ver_to_u64(9), mwah 💖✨