__bnx2x_link_report(9)

💖 __bnx2x_link_report (9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual for __bnx2x_link_report — she's a bnx2x girlie and she's here to spill the tea about your link status 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

__bnx2x_link_report — literally the function whose whole job is report link status to OS. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void __bnx2x_link_report (struct bnx2x *bp );

no cap, that's the whole signature. she takes one (1) pointer and returns absolutely nothing back to you 😌

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• bp — the driver handle 🫶 like, your whole bnx2x situation lives in here.

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the thing, bestie — this is a None atomic implementation. meaning: not atomic, do not be calling her from some atomic context thinking it's fine, because it is not fine 🙈

🌟 she should be called under the phy_lock. that's not optional, that's the assignment. hold the lock, then report, iykyk 🔒

she reports the link status to the OS, and she does it exactly the way the driver needs her to. iconic behaviour, honestly 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

this is the part where we shout out her whole friend group 💜 they all live in the kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c and honestly? the roster ate:

• bnx2x_move_fp(9)
• bnx2x_fill_fw_str(9)
• bnx2x_shrink_eth_fp(9)
• bnx2x_set_gro_params(9)
• bnx2x_fill_report_data(9)
• bnx2x_link_report(9)
• bnx2x_free_msix_irqs(9)
• bnx2x_set_real_num_queues(9)
• bnx2x_bz_fp(9)
• bnx2x_set_pbd_gso(9)
• bnx2x_set_pbd_csum_enc(9)
• bnx2x_set_pbd_csum_e2(9)
• bnx2x_set_pbd_csum(9)
• bnx2x_setup_tc(9)

fr fr, go read all of them, they're all giving main character energy 🌟

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💌 before you go — this page came from source/version <code>./drivers/net/ethernet/broadco...</code> (yes bestie, it's truncated in the original, that's just how it is 🙈) and it's dated October 2026. mwah, stay hydrated, hold your locks, and don't call non-atomic functions from atomic context 💋✨