ice_ptp_tmr_cmd_to_port_reg(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 ice_ptp_tmr_cmd_to_port_reg — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

ok so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and bestie, it's a tiny little function but it's important — it's the one that translates a timer command into the actual register value your PHY port wants. no cap, small function, big main character energy 💅

💖 NAME 💖

ice_ptp_tmr_cmd_to_port_reg — convert to port timer command value 🕐

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u32 ice_ptp_tmr_cmd_to_port_reg (struct ice_hw *hw , enum
       ice_ptp_tmr_cmd cmd );

like, you hand it your HW struct and a timer command, and it hands you back a u32. that's the whole vibe 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to HW struct. yes queen, the hardware blob, she's the source of truth 🔥
  • cmd — the timer command. the thing you want translated 🕰️

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕: some hardware families are extra and use a different command register value for the PHY ports, while other hardware families are chill and use the same register values as the source timer. literally two different vibes, same function, and this is the function that knows the difference 👑

it's giving "adapter" energy fr fr. iykyk 🧚

🌈 RETURN 🌈

it returns the PHY port timer command register value for the given PTP timer command. that's it, that's the whole return, and honestly? iconic. 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

and now the moment you've all been waiting for — the friend group. this list is long, bestie, grab a snack 🍓

the kernel file itself lives at ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c 🗂️

and that's the page!! 💫 this one came from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ice_ptp_tmr_cmd_to_port_reg(9) — mwah, go read it again, ily 🫶🎀

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