e1000_update_phy_info_task(9)

💜 e1000_update_phy_info_task — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition

okay so welcome to the e1000_update_phy_info_task(9) page 💖 this is straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's lowkey a tiny little function that just wants the phy to spill its diagnostic tea. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

e1000_update_phy_info_task — get phy info 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void e1000_update_phy_info_task (struct work_struct *work );

that's it. that's the whole vibe. returns void, takes one arg, no cap 💅

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• work — the work struct, and it's chilling inside the adapter struct, like it literally lives in there 🫶 so yeah, you're not passing the adapter, you're passing the work thing that's nested in the adapter. iykyk.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the situation: you cannot just roll up right after link up and demand diagnostic information from the phy 😭 the phy needs a minute. literally. you need to wait a few seconds after link up to actually get that diagnostic info out of it.

it's giving "let her breathe" energy ngl. wait a few seconds, then ask for the phy diagnostic information. that's the whole entire job 🔥

bestie do not skip the wait. the waiting IS the task. ⭐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the kernel file it calls home 🏠:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c

and now, the full squad — every single one of these icons, no skips, no cuts 🌈:

• e1000_get_hw_dev(9), e1000_init_module(9), e1000_exit_module(9), e1000_irq_disable(9), e1000_irq_enable(9), e1000_configure(9), e1000_power_up_phy(9), e1000_is_need_ioport(9), e1000_init_hw_struct(9), e1000_probe(9), e1000_remove(9), e1000_sw_init(9), e1000_alloc_queues(9), e1000_open(9), e1000_close(9), e1000_check_64k_bound(9), e1000_setup_tx_resources(9), e1000_setup_all_tx_resources(9), e1000_configure_tx(9), e1000_setup_rx_resources(9), e1000_setup_all_rx_resources(9), e1000_setup_rctl(9), e1000_configure_rx(9), e1000_free_tx_resources(9), e1000_free_all_tx_resources(9), e1000_clean_tx_ring(9), e1000_clean_all_tx_rings(9), e1000_free_rx_resources(9), e1000_free_all_rx_resources(9), e1000_clean_rx_ring(9), e1000_clean_all_rx_rings(9), e1000_set_mac(9), e1000_set_rx_mode(9), e1000_82547_tx_fifo_stall_task(9), e1000_watchdog(9), e1000_update_itr(9), e1000_tx_timeout(9), e1000_change_mtu(9), e1000_update_stats(9), e1000_intr(9), e1000_clean(9), e1000_clean_tx_irq(9), e1000_rx_checksum(9), e1000_consume_page(9), e1000_receive_skb(9), e1000_tbi_adjust_stats(9), e1000_clean_jumbo_rx_irq(9), e1000_clean_rx_irq(9), e1000_alloc_jumbo_rx_buffers(9), e1000_alloc_rx_buffers(9), e1000_smartspeed(9), e1000_ioctl(9), e1000_mii_ioctl(9), e1000_io_error_detected(9), e1000_io_slot_reset(9), e1000_io_resume(9)

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and that's the page!! 💅 mwah 🫶

🌟 cute little sign-off: this one's sourced from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e... (the long path got a lil trimmed in the footer, iconic behavior tbh), dated October 2026, and it belongs to the e1000_update_phy_info_task(9) manual. slay, go get that phy info bestie 💜🎀