linkmode_adv...i_ctrl1000_t(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 linkmode_adv_to_mii_ctrl1000_t — a kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is linkmode_adv_to_mii_ctrl1000_t(9). Yes the name is a whole mouthful, yes it's iconic, no we're not shortening it. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

linkmode_adv_to_mii_ctrl1000_t — and honestly the original NAME section just trails off into the void after the dash, so that's what we're working with 💀 no description, just vibes.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

u32 linkmode_adv_to_mii_ctrl1000_t (const unsigned long *advertising );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's small but she's mighty ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • advertising — the linkmode advertisement settings 🦋 basically the little bundle of "hey, here's what I can do" that we're about to translate.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: it's a small helper function, right? and its entire job — its whole main character purpose — is to translate your linkmode advertisement settings into phy autonegotiation advertisements for the MII_CTRL1000 register. but only when in 1000T mode, bestie. that last part is not a suggestion, it's the whole point 🎯

so like, if you're living in 1000T mode, this function ate and left no crumbs — it takes your advertising settings and hands back the matching MII_CTRL1000 advertisement bits. periodt 💅

ngl this is one of those tiny glue functions that nobody notices until it's missing, and then everything is on fire 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

she's got connections, okay? the whole friend group:

like, she literally knows everyone in the mii.h cinematic universe 👑 iykyk

🌈 and that's the page! big love to the ./include/linux girlies and to October 2026, the date that brought us this little legend. mwah, take care of her 💜🎀

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