e1000_update_phy_info(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for e1000_update_phy_info(9) — title and manual name are right here at the top, and we’re already obsessed 💅✨.

🎀 NAME 🎀

e1000_update_phy_info — the NAME line calls it a “timre call-back to update PHY info”, and yes, timre is literally the spelling in the original, so we preserve it exactly, no cap 💀. This whole page is about that PHY-info update call-back vibe 🦋.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the signature, character-for-character, no edits, bestie:

void e1000_update_phy_info (struct timer_list *t );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • t — pointer to timer_list containing private info adapter 🌸. That’s the one and only arg; it’s the timer list holding the private info adapter, periodt.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the situation is literally this: you need to wait a few seconds after link up to get diagnostic information from the phy ⏳. That’s the whole lore; patience is the assignment here, bestie. No extra chaos, just a few seconds and then the phy diagnostic info 💅.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The whole SEE ALSO squad, in order, no skips, no cap 👑:

okay bye bestie 🫶 e1000_update_phy_info(9) is the manual name, the source/version is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e..., and the date stamp is October 2026 — mwah 💋✨

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