igb_acquire_phy_82575(9)

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🌈 igb_acquire_phy_82575(9) — Kernel API Manual 🌈

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for igb_acquire_phy_82575(9). This is the whole vibe: grabbing access rights to a PHY, and yes the function name is long enough to need its own zip code. 💅

💖 NAME 💖

igb_acquire_phy_82575 — Acquire rights to access PHY. That's it. That's the name. Short, sweet, and extremely specific.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the call itself is giving "one argument and a dream":

s32 igb_acquire_phy_82575 (struct e1000_hw *hw );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to the HW structure. That's the whole argument, bestie. It points at the hardware structure and the function takes it from there. 🫶

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So the actual job is: acquire access rights to the correct PHY. Correct is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and we respect it.

This is a function pointer entry point called by the api module. Not me making it up — that's literally the description. It's giving "the api module calls through a function pointer, and this function is the entry point." 💫

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

okay here's the whole extended friend group, no cap. First up, the source file:

  • Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_82575.c

and then all these iconic little manual pages:

okay that's the whole page, bestie. source/version and date sign-off: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb, October 2026, manual page igb_acquire_phy_82575(9) 🫶💖✨

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