__e1000_write_phy_reg_hv(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ __e1000_write_phy_reg_hv — the Kernel API Manual entry you didn't know you needed ✨

Okay bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, because we're diving into a Kernel API Manual page for a lil function called __e1000_write_phy_reg_hv. Yes it has two underscores, no we're not renaming it, that's its whole thing 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

__e1000_write_phy_reg_hv — literally just writes an HV PHY register. That's it, that's the job 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s32 __e1000_write_phy_reg_hv (struct e1000_hw *hw , u32 offset , u16
data , bool locked , bool page_set );

Look at her. Five whole parameters. Main character signature energy fr fr 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. The hardware bestie we're working with 💖
  • offset — the register offset you're writing to. Where the data's gonna live ✨
  • data — the actual data being written at that register offset. The content itself, the substance, the moment 🍓
  • locked — tells you whether the semaphore has already been acquired or not. Like, is the door already open or do we need to knock? 🚪
  • page_set — BM_WUC_PAGE is already set and access is enabled. Already prepped, already slay 🌈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So here's the vibe: it acquires the semaphore if necessary, then writes the data to the PHY register at the offset. And then — super important — it releases any acquired semaphores before exiting. No semaphore left behind, no leaked locks, we are responsible in this household 😤✨

That's genuinely the whole description. Short. Efficient. It's giving minimalism 🎀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Okay this is the long part, and yes we're doing all of them, don't @ me 💀 First up, the source file itself:

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/phy.c

And now the full friendship circle 🫶:

That's seventy-something cross references and we listed every single one because that's what she deserves 👑✨

💀 Real talk though: this page is from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... (the path got cut off in the footer, rip 😭), dated October 2026, and it lives under the Kernel API Manual name. So when you cite it, cite it right, iykyk 🧚

Stay hydrated, release your semaphores, and remember: acquire if necessary, release before exiting. Periodt 💅🦋🌸

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