mii_check_media_mode(9)

💖 mii_check_media_mode(9) 💖

okay so hi bestie!! welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a little cutie from the kernel docs, and honestly she's short but she matters. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mii_check_media_mode — check media state 💅

like. she checks the media state. that's the whole job. icon behavior.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u32 mii_check_media_mode (struct mac_regs __iomem *regs );

so she takes one thing and hands you back a u32 — noted, respected, slay 💖

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• regs — the velocity registers 🌈 that's it, that's the arg. she's a struct mac_regs __iomem * and she's everything.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: mii_check_media_mode checks the current MII status and then determines the link status accordingly. that's literally the whole plot 🍓

no cap, it's giving "small function, big responsibility" energy. main character of the link-detection arc, honestly 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

first up, the source file — she lives here, go say hi:

• ./drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-velocity.c

and then the whole extended friend group 😭 (they're all (9) pages, so you know they're the real ones):

• mac_get_cam_mask(9), mac_set_cam_mask(9), mac_set_cam(9), mac_wol_reset(9), get_chip_name(9)
• velocity_set_int_opt(9), velocity_set_bool_opt(9), velocity_get_options(9)
• velocity_init_cam_filter(9), velocity_rx_reset(9), velocity_get_opt_media_mode(9)
• safe_disable_mii_autopoll(9), enable_mii_autopoll(9)
• velocity_mii_read(9), velocity_mii_write(9), set_mii_flow_control(9), mii_set_auto_on(9)
• velocity_set_media_mode(9), velocity_print_link_status(9), enable_flow_control_ability(9)
• velocity_soft_reset(9), velocity_set_multi(9), mii_init(9)
• setup_queue_timers(9), setup_adaptive_interrupts(9)
• velocity_init_registers(9), velocity_init_dma_rings(9)
• velocity_alloc_rx_buf(9), velocity_free_rd_ring(9), velocity_init_rd_ring(9), velocity_init_td_ring(9)
• velocity_free_dma_rings(9), velocity_free_tx_buf(9), velocity_free_td_ring(9)
• velocity_error(9), velocity_tx_srv(9), velocity_rx_csum(9), velocity_rx_copy(9), velocity_iph_realign(9)
• velocity_receive_frame(9), velocity_rx_srv(9), velocity_intr(9)
• velocity_open(9), velocity_shutdown(9), velocity_change_mtu(9), velocity_poll_controller(9)
• velocity_mii_ioctl(9), velocity_ioctl(9), velocity_get_stats(9), velocity_close(9), velocity_xmit(9)
• velocity_init_info(9), velocity_get_pci_info(9), velocity_get_platform_info(9), velocity_print_info(9)
• velocity_probe(9), velocity_remove(9)
• wol_calc_crc(9), velocity_set_wol(9), velocity_save_context(9), velocity_restore_context(9)
• velocity_ethtool_up(9), velocity_ethtool_down(9)
• velocity_init_module(9), velocity_cleanup_module(9)

like... that's a lot of friends and every single one of them made the list. no one left behind fr fr 💀💖

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ok and one last thing bestie — this page's home base is ./drivers/net/ethernet/via and she's dated October 2026 ⭐ so like, she's from the future AND from the via ethernet directory. iconic. that's the sign-off, mwah 💅🎀🦋