e1000_set_phy_type(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 e1000_set_phy_type — Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, real talk: this one's a tiny little function from the Kernel API Manual, and it does exactly one (1) job. It sets the phy_type member inside the hw struct. That's it. That's the whole vibe. Lowkey iconic for being so unbothered. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

e1000_set_phy_type — Set the phy type member in the hw struct.

Like. It's giving "I have one task and I will not be taking questions." 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

s32 e1000_set_phy_type (struct e1000_hw *hw );

so it hands you back an s32 (yes, a return code, we love a function that reports back 🫶) and it wants a pointer to a struct e1000_hw. periodt.

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • hw — the struct containing variables accessed by shared code 💅 that's the one and only thing you're passing in, bestie. It's the struct where all the shared-code goss lives, and this function's whole contribution is scribbling the phy type into it.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

First up, the actual source file, if you wanna go read the receipts yourself:

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_hw.c

and then… okay. Deep breath. The whole friend group shows up here. This function literally knows everyone. No cap, look at this list 😭:

yeah. seventy-something manpages. she's a connector, a socialite, the main character of the intel e1000 directory. iykyk 💀✨

ngl bestie, there's no DESCRIPTION, no OPTIONS, no EXIT STATUS, no caveats on this page — just name, signature, one argument, and the entire extended friend group. sometimes a manpage is short and that's slay. 🧚

and that's the whole page! mwah 💜 this little write-up lives in ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e… (the path got a lil truncated by the man renderer, rude of it 🙈) as part of the Kernel API Manual, stamped October 2026 — ok bye, love u, go set that phy type 🫶🎀🍓

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