e1000_power...pper_ich8lan(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_power_down_phy_copper_ich8lan

okay so real talk, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — yes, that e1000_power...pper_ich8lan(9) header situation up top, that's her full government name 💖. And bestie, she is niche, but she's iconic and she does exactly one job flawlessly.

🌸 NAME 🌸

e1000_power_down_phy_copper_ich8lan — remove the link during PHY power down ✨

Basically: when the PHY is going night-night, the link does not get to hang around being cute. It's gone. Periodt. 💀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void e1000_power_down_phy_copper_ich8lan (struct e1000_hw *hw );

No return value, no drama, just vibes and a void. 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure 💻✨ (that's the hardware struct, the main character of this whole function, lowkey)

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So here's the tea 🍓: there are a few situations where the link needs to go bye-bye —

  • when the PHY is being powered down to save power (energy conservation slay 🔥),
  • when the link needs to be turned off during a driver unload,
  • or when wake on lan is not enabled.

In all those cases, this function removes the link. That's it, that's the whole gig. Not me describing a whole function in one sentence and it still eating 💅.

no cap, the source phrasing is "remove the link" — so the link is removed. Don't go reading extra behaviour into it, bestie, this is the entire documented deal 🙈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

The whole extended ich8lan / pchlan / lpt / spt / hv / lv family reunion showed up to this page and honestly? Every single one of them is on the guest list. Say hi to all of them 👑:

and that's the whole page, bestie — every flag-free, option-free, straight-to-the-point crumb of it 🧚💜

🫶 cute little sign-off: this one's sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... (yes, truncated exactly like that in the footer, she's mysterious like that 💅) and dated October 2026. Manual name again, one last time for the road: e1000_power...pper_ich8lan(9). mwah 💋✨
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