e1000_phy_reset(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 e1000_phy_reset 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — section 9, yes, the fancy kernel-functions one 🎀. This little cutie is the PHY reset girlie, and honestly she's short and sweet but she does a thing, so let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

e1000_phy_reset — reset the phy to commit settings 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s32 e1000_phy_reset (struct e1000_hw *hw );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — the struct holding all the variables that the shared code needs to peek at 👀 literally the whole personality of the call lives in here.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what she does: she resets the PHY. That's it. That's the vibe. And the way she does it? She sets bit 15 of the MII Control register 🫶. main character move, no notes.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole group chat is here, and yes i'm listing every single one because they all ate 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 no cap. this little icon came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... (yes it's truncated like that, i don't make the rules 💀) and she's dated October 2026 ⭐. go reset a phy, slay, periodt 💜🌈

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