mii_lpa_to_linkmode_lpa_t(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 mii_lpa_to_linkmode_lpa_t 💅

Okay bestie, gather round — this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is mii_lpa_to_linkmode_lpa_t. She's a little function, she's doing her thing, and honestly? iconic behaviour for something so small. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void mii_lpa_to_linkmode_lpa_t (unsigned long *lp_advertising , u32 lpa );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

So the docs literally give us nothing here, no cap — both arguments are marked -- undescribed -- in the original. Not me side-eyeing the documentation team 😭 but fr fr, here's exactly what we've got:

  • lp_advertising — -- undescribed -- 🙈 (yep, that's genuinely all the manual says)
  • lpa — -- undescribed -- 🙈 (also unspecified, we're on our own here)
Lowkey a vibe check fail on the docs, but we keep the facts exactly as they are. 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

A small helper function that translates MII_LPA bits — but only when you're in 1000Base-T mode, bestie, that's the whole point — into linkmode LP advertisement settings.

And the big one: she clears the old value of advertising. ✨ So don't come crying to me if your old advertisement data is gone, because that's literally her job. Periodt.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./include/linux/mii.h — and honestly the whole friend group is here, so let's shout them all out one by one 🫶:

(not me listing twenty-two functions and still being obsessed 💅)

⭐ THE CUTE SIGN-OFF ⭐

This lil beauty lives in the kernel source under ./include/linux, and this edition of the page is dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's fresh, she's current, she's main character energy. Go translate those MII_LPA bits, bestie 💖🌈🧚

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