ath5k_ani_phy_error_report(9)

💅 ath5k_ani_phy_error_report(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a (9) page, that's the kernel-doc girlies, we respect them 🫶. Today's main character is ath5k_ani_phy_error_report, and honestly? she's doing a very specific little job and she's doing it well. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ath5k_ani_phy_error_report — the girlies on older HW use this to report PHY errors 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ath5k_ani_phy_error_report (struct ath5k_hw *ah , enum
ath5k_phy_error_code phyerr );

literally just that. two arguments, no return value, void, she gives nothing back and expects nothing in return. iconic behaviour tbh.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ah — the struct ath5k_hw. that's your hardware struct bestie, the whole vibe of the card lives in there 💖
• phyerr — one of enum ath5k_phy_error_code. i.e. which flavour of PHY error we're reporting, pick one from the enum, please and thank you 🍓

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the tea ☕: this function gets called by hardware that doesn't have PHY error counters — like, they simply didn't ship with them, not their fault, we don't judge 🙈 — and it reports PHY errors on a frame-by-frame basis instead.

which is different from the normal girlies who get to do it via the interrupt ✨. those cards get the fancy counter treatment; these cards have to hand you each error one frame at a time. and ath5k_ani_phy_error_report is the function that takes that handoff. lowkey important, highkey underrated 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr — go say hi:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ani.c
• Basic ANI Operation(9)
• ath5k_ani_set_noise_immunity_level(9)
• ath5k_ani_set_spur_immunity_level(9)
• ath5k_ani_set_firstep_level(9)
• ath5k_ani_set_ofdm_weak_signal_detection(9)
• ath5k_ani_set_cck_weak_signal_detection(9)
• ath5k_ani_raise_immunity(9)
• ath5k_ani_lower_immunity(9)
• ath5k_hw_ani_get_listen_time(9)
• ath5k_ani_save_and_clear_phy_errors(9)
• ath5k_ani_period_restart(9)
• ath5k_ani_calibration(9)
• ath5k_ani_mib_intr(9)
• ath5k_enable_phy_err_counters(9)
• ath5k_disable_phy_err_counters(9)
• ath5k_ani_init(9)
• ath5k_ani_print_counters(9)

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bestie reminder: phyerr is an enum ath5k_phy_error_code, so don't go throwing random ints at it and acting surprised 🙈. also this path is for hardware without PHY error counters — the counter-having girlies go through the interrupt instead. iykyk 💅

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that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — sourced straight from ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k, dated October 2026, and this manual page is literally called ath5k_ani_phy_error_report(9). slay, ate, no crumbs left, periodt 🌸🧚💜