fwnode_get_phy_node(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 fwnode_get_phy_node(9) 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally about grabbing a phy_node off a fwnode — bestie, it's giving "small function, huge friend group". let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

fwnode_get_phy_node — get the phy_node using the named reference. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct fwnode_handle * fwnode_get_phy_node (const struct fwnode_handle
*fwnode );

look at her go 😭 returns a struct fwnode_handle *, takes a const struct fwnode_handle *. iconic signature behavior, no notes.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • fwnode — pointer to the fwnode from which phy_node has to be obtained. yes literally just hand her the fwnode and she'll go get the phy_node for you, she's so nice like that 💜

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so for what actually comes back, go peek at the return conditions of fwnode_find_reference — that's where the real lore lives, iykyk ✨

now the spicy part 🔥 For ACPI, only "phy-handle" is supported. like, that's the whole menu, one item, no substitutions. The legacy DT properties "phy" and "phy-device" are not supported in ACPI — nope, not happening, don't even try it bestie 🙈

DT, on the other hand, is the main character and supports all three of the named references to the phy node: "phy", "phy-device", and "phy-handle". she ate 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c — and then the whole squad, fr fr:

like... the whole net/phy friend group showed up to the party 😭💀

that's the page bestie!! 🧚 she lives in ./drivers/net/phy, version dated October 2026, and she's still fwnode_get_phy_node(9) at the end of the day. mwah 💋 go get that phy_node, you got this 💖✨🍓

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