ixgbe_restar...l_phy_x550em(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to ixgbe_restart_an_internal_phy_x550em — she's a section 9 girlie living in the Kernel API Manual (the page header truncates her whole name to ixgbe_restar...l_phy_x550em(9) and honestly the suspense is iconic 💅).

What does she do?? She restarts autonegotiation for the internal PHY. That's it. That's the whole job. Slay, queen, do one (1) thing and do it well ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ixgbe_restart_an_internal_phy_x550em (struct ixgbe_hw *hw );

no cap, that space before the closing paren is literally in there, she's not a typo, she's a lifestyle 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hw — pointer to hardware structure 💖 that's the hardware handoff, the little ✨ where-is-your-hardware ✨ receipt she needs before she can do her thing

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie she does not exist alone, she's in a whole friend group. The kernel file she lives in is:

./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c

and here's the entire group chat, all (9) section, all of them, no skipping, I would never do you like that 🌸:

like… sixty of them. sixty!! it's giving "family reunion and you have to say hi to every single one" 😭 but they're all linked, so go read them, they're right there, iykyk 🔥

lowkey note bestie: the _X550em vs _x550em vs _x550em_a capitalisation is not me being chaotic, that's exactly how they're spelled, do not "fix" them 🙈

and that's the whole page 🎀 short, sweet, and absolutely carried by the SEE ALSO section, honestly. this draft was served up from ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026, and the page itself still insists on signing off as ixgbe_restar...l_phy_x550em(9) — truncated queen, we love her 💜 bye bestie, go restart that autonegotiation 🦋

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