ethtool_adv_to_mii_adv_t(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 ethtool_adv_to_mii_adv_t 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ we're literally about to read the whole page together, no skipping, i promise 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ethtool_adv_to_mii_adv_t — no cap, that's the whole name section in the original, so that's the whole name section here too 😌 the function is the moment, the name IS the description, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u32 ethtool_adv_to_mii_adv_t (u32 ethadv );

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. she's tiny but she's doing the WORK 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • ethadv — the ethtool advertisement settings. that's your input bestie, the raw ethtool-side vibes you're handing over 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea 🍓: this is a small helper function — literally just a little guy, a helper — and what she does is translate ethtool advertisement settings into phy autonegotiation advertisements for the MII_ADVERTISE register. that's the whole job. she converts one dialect into another. lowkey iconic of her ngl 👑

so you bring your ethadv, she hands you back a u32 in MII_ADVERTISE speak. matchmaker energy fr fr 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is LONG, like, she has a whole extended friend group and you're gonna meet every single one of them 💀 they all live in the kernel file ./include/linux/mii.h:

go read them all, bestie, they're all in the same file, it's a whole group chat 🧚‍♀️

💡 friendly reminder: every one of those references is spelled exactly like the original, so don't come for me if one looks cursed — i copied her character for character 🙈

and that's the page!! 🎀 cute little sign-off for you: this masterpiece lives under the source path ./include/linux and it's dated October 2026, so mark your calendar bestie ⭐ ethtool_adv_to_mii_adv_t(9) ate and left no crumbs, periodt 💖

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