mxl86111_probe(9)

✨ mxl86111_probe — validate bootstrap chip config and set UTP page ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the mxl86111_probe(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 🎀 — this is the little function that shows up, does a vibe check on your chip's bootstrap config, and then sets the UTP page. lowkey important stuff 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int mxl86111_probe (struct phy_device *phydev );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's short and she knows it ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• phydev — pointer to the phy_device 🫶 (this is the PHY device struct you're handing over, no cap)

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💖 RETURN 💖

Returns 0 or a negative errno code — so, like, 0 means slay, anything negative means something went off 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr — first the kernel file she lives in:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/mxl-86110.c

and then all her besties 🧚:

• __mxl86110_write_extended_reg(9)
• __mxl86110_read_extended_reg(9)
• __mxl86110_modify_extended_reg(9)
• mxl86110_write_extended_reg(9)
• mxl86110_read_extended_reg(9)
• mxl86110_modify_extended_reg(9)
• mxl86110_get_wol(9)
• mxl86110_set_wol(9)
• mxl86110_synce_clk_cfg(9)
• mxl86110_broadcast_cfg(9)
• mxl86110_enable_led_activity_blink(9)
• mxl86110_config_rgmii_delay(9)
• mxl86110_config_init(9)
• mxl86111_config_init(9)
• mxl86111_read_page(9)
• mxl86111_write_page(9)

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heads up bestie: don't sleep on the SEE ALSO list, it's giving whole ecosystem 👑

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and that's the page! 💜 this one came from ./drivers/net/phy, dated October 2026, part of the Kernel API Manual — mwah, go read some driver code, you've got this 🫶✨