hw_enable(9)

hw_enable(9) — enable hardware 💅✨

okay so real talk, this is straight out of the Kernel API Manual (the hw_enable(9) page, yes bestie, section 9), and it's honestly iconic in how little it does. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

hw_enable — enable hardware. that's it. that's the vibe. 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void hw_enable (struct ksz_hw *hw );

literally one function, no return value, no drama. void means it gives you nothing back and honestly? respect. 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• hw — the hardware instance. like, the actual hardware. hand it over and it's go time 🦋

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so this routine enables the hardware. no cap, that's the whole entire description. it turns the hardware on. main character energy fr fr 👑

no extra lore here, bestie — the source gave us one sentence and we're not gonna invent any. that's the whole bit.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

this list is long, like, genuinely enormous, and every single one of these is in the original, so buckle up 🎀

the home base 💖

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c

the structs (struct girlies rise) 🧚

• struct ksz_hw_desc(9) — struct ksz_sw_desc(9) — struct ksz_dma_buf(9) — struct ksz_desc(9) — struct ksz_desc_info(9)
• struct ksz_mac_table(9) — struct ksz_vlan_table(9) — struct ksz_port_mib(9) — struct ksz_port_cfg(9) — struct ksz_switch(9)
• struct ksz_port_info(9) — struct ksz_hw(9) — struct ksz_port(9) — struct ksz_timer_info(9) — struct ksz_shared_mem(9)
• struct ksz_counter_info(9) — struct dev_info(9) — struct dev_priv(9)

interrupts ⚡

• hw_turn_on_intr(9) — hw_block_intr(9)

table access, lowkey obsessed 🍓

• sw_r_table(9) — sw_w_table_64(9) — sw_w_sta_mac_table(9) — sw_r_vlan_table(9)

counters & port reads 📊

• port_r_mib_cnt(9) — port_r_mib_pkt(9) — port_r_cnt(9) — port_init_cnt(9)
• port_cfg(9) — port_r8(9) — port_r16(9) — port_w16(9)

switch config era 💜

• sw_chk(9) — sw_cfg(9)
• sw_cfg_broad_storm(9) — sw_get_broad_storm(9) — sw_dis_broad_storm(9) — sw_ena_broad_storm(9) — sw_init_broad_storm(9) — hw_cfg_broad_storm(9)
• sw_dis_prio_rate(9) — sw_init_prio_rate(9)
• sw_dis_diffserv(9) — sw_dis_802_1p(9) — sw_cfg_replace_null_vid(9) — sw_cfg_replace_vid(9) — sw_cfg_port_based(9) — sw_dis_multi_queue(9) — sw_init_prio(9)
• port_get_def_vid(9) — sw_init_vlan(9) — sw_cfg_port_base_vlan(9)
• sw_set_addr(9) — sw_set_global_ctrl(9) — port_set_stp_state(9) — sw_clr_sta_mac_table(9) — sw_init_stp(9) — sw_block_addr(9)

phy, eeprom & link speed 🦋

• hw_r_phy(9) — hw_w_phy(9) — eeprom_read(9) — eeprom_write(9)
• port_get_link_speed(9) — port_set_link_speed(9) — port_force_link_speed(9)

wake-on-LAN nation 😭

• hw_chk_wol_pme_status(9) — hw_clr_wol_pme_status(9) — hw_cfg_wol_pme(9) — hw_cfg_wol(9) — hw_set_wol_frame(9)
• hw_add_wol_arp(9) — hw_add_wol_bcast(9) — hw_add_wol_mcast(9) — hw_add_wol_ucast(9) — hw_enable_wol(9)

the hw_* squad 👑

• hw_init(9) — hw_reset(9) — hw_setup(9) — hw_setup_intr(9) — hw_set_desc_base(9)
• hw_start_rx(9) — hw_stop_rx(9) — hw_start_tx(9) — hw_stop_tx(9) — hw_disable(9)
• hw_alloc_pkt(9) — hw_send_pkt(9) — hw_set_addr(9) — hw_read_addr(9) — hw_clr_multicast(9)
• hw_set_grp_addr(9) — hw_set_multicast(9) — hw_set_promiscuous(9)

more switch + timer + memory 🎀

• sw_enable(9) — sw_setup(9)
• ksz_start_timer(9) — ksz_stop_timer(9)
• ksz_alloc_soft_desc(9) — ksz_alloc_desc(9) — free_dma_buf(9) — ksz_init_rx_buffers(9) — ksz_alloc_mem(9)
• ksz_free_desc(9) — ksz_free_buffers(9) — ksz_free_mem(9)

packet path & netdev basics 💖

• send_packet(9) — transmit_cleanup(9) — tx_done(9)
• netdev_tx(9) — netdev_tx_timeout(9) — netdev_intr(9) — netdev_close(9) — netdev_open(9)
• netdev_query_statistics(9) — netdev_set_mac_address(9) — netdev_set_rx_mode(9) — netdev_ioctl(9)

mdio 🧚

• mdio_read(9) — mdio_write(9)

netdev ethtool-adjacent everything ✨

• netdev_get_link_ksettings(9) — netdev_set_link_ksettings(9) — netdev_nway_reset(9) — netdev_get_link(9)
• netdev_get_drvinfo(9) — netdev_get_regs_len(9) — netdev_get_regs(9)
• netdev_get_wol(9) — netdev_set_wol(9) — netdev_get_msglevel(9) — netdev_set_msglevel(9)
• netdev_get_eeprom_len(9) — netdev_get_eeprom(9) — netdev_set_eeprom(9)
• netdev_get_pauseparam(9) — netdev_set_pauseparam(9) — netdev_get_ringparam(9)
• netdev_get_strings(9) — netdev_get_sset_count(9) — netdev_get_ethtool_stats(9) — netdev_set_features(9)

and the last two, we love a grand finale 🌟

• dev_monitor(9) — netdev_init(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, short and sweet, no notes 💅

sign-off szn: this lil beauty comes from source ./drivers/net/ethernet/micrel, dated October 2026, and it's page hw_enable(9) forever and always 🎀🫶✨