dp83tg720_cable_test_start(9)

💅 dp83tg720_cable_test_start

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is the page for dp83tg720_cable_test_start, and honestly? it's giving "small function, big job" energy.

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🎀 NAME

dp83tg720_cable_test_start — start the cable test for the DP83TG720 PHY 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS

int dp83tg720_cable_test_start (struct phy_device *phydev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS

• phydev — pointer to the phy_device structure. that's your whole personality for this function, ngl 🌸

🔥 DESCRIPTION

this sequence is based on the documented procedure for the DP83TG720 PHY 👑 no cap, that's literally the whole bit — it follows the documented steps for that PHY, so don't go freestyling 💀

⭐ RETURN

0 on success, a negative error code on failure 🙈 so yeah, check it, bestie — zero means slay, negative means something's off.

🌈 SEE ALSO

• the kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/dp83tg720.c
• dp83tg720_update_stats(9)
• dp83tg720_cable_test_get_status(9)
• dp83tg720_get_next_update_time(9)

go read those too, iykyk 🧚

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🫶 that's the whole page! short and iconic, periodt.

and like, credits where they're due: this lives in ./drivers/net/phy, it's from the Kernel API Manual (the version that's dated October 2026), and the page itself is dp83tg720_cable_test_start(9). bye bestie 💜🍓