fbnic_phylink_create(9)

✨ fbnic_phylink_create(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 — yes this is a section 9 page, yes it's a kernel function, yes you're gonna understand it. Let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fbnic_phylink_create — Phylink device creation, aka making a phylink happen 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int fbnic_phylink_create (struct net_device *netdev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• netdev — the Network Device struct you're attaching the phylink device to. it's literally the main character here 👑

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So what this bad boy does: it initializes and attaches a phylink instance to the device ✨.

That phylink device is gonna make use of the netdev struct to track carrier — like it's keeping tabs on the vibe check of your link, fr fr 📡.

And eventually? it'll be used to expose the current state of the MAC and PCS setup 👀 iykyk.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• 0 on success 🎉 (slay)
• negative on failure 😭 (not slay)

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic/fbnic_phylink.c — go read it bestie 📖
• fbnic_phylink_destroy(9) — the opposite vibe 💀
• fbnic_phylink_pmd_training_complete_notify(9) — say that three times fast, I dare you 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, no cap 🧚 this one came from the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/meta/fbnic and it's dated October 2026 — so like, future vibes only ⭐ bye bestie, go create some phylinks 💖🎀