G_PROVIDER_BY_NAME(9)

💖 G_PROVIDER_BY_NAME(9) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel Developer's Manual — manual section 9, for all you kernel-coding girlies out there. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

g_provider_by_name — find a GEOM provider with a given name 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <geom/geom.h>

struct g_provider *
g_provider_by_name(const char *name);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So the g_provider_by_name() function goes looking for a provider called name and hands you back the struct g_provider bound to it. no cap 🫶

and like, heads up: name should be an actual name, not a whole path. it's giving "da0", NOT "/dev/da0". the way that matters, fr fr 🙈

🔒 RESTRICTIONS/CONDITIONS 🔒

you have to be holding the topology lock. that's not a suggestion, that's the vibe check you cannot fail 💀

⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

g_provider_by_name() returns a pointer to the provider called name, or NULL if there's literally no such provider. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• geom(4)
• DECLARE_GEOM_CLASS(9)
• g_access(9)
• g_attach(9)
• g_bio(9)
• g_consumer(9)
• g_data(9)
• g_event(9)
• g_geom(9)
• g_provider(9)
• g_wither_geom(9)

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

This manual page was written by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>. thank you king, we love a documented kernel API 🫶✨

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅

Debian · January 16, 2004 · G_PROVIDER_BY_NAME(9) — ok bye, go write some GEOM code, mwah 🎀💖🌸