phy_ethtool_nway_reset(9)

✨ phy_ethtool_nway_reset(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for phy_ethtool_nway_reset, and it's literally one function doing one iconic little thing. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

phy_ethtool_nway_reset — restart auto negotiation 🔄✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int phy_ethtool_nway_reset (struct net_device *ndev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ndev — the network device you want to restart autoneg for, bestie. that's the whole vibe check right there 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so this is the part where the kernel hands you the entire friend group 😭 literally the whole ./drivers/net/phy/phy.c gang is here, no cap:

• phy_print_status(9)
• phy_get_rate_matching(9)
• phy_config_interrupt(9)
• phy_restart_aneg(9)
• phy_aneg_done(9)
• phy_supported_speeds(9)
• phy_check_valid(9)
• phy_sanitize_settings(9)
• phy_mii_ioctl(9)
• phy_do_ioctl(9)
• phy_do_ioctl_running(9)
• __phy_hwtstamp_get(9)
• __phy_hwtstamp_set(9)
• phy_queue_state_machine(9)
• phy_trigger_machine(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_strings(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_sset_count(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_stats(9)
• __phy_ethtool_get_phy_stats(9)
• __phy_ethtool_get_link_ext_stats(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_plca_cfg(9)
• plca_check_valid(9)
• phy_ethtool_set_plca_cfg(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_plca_status(9)
• phy_start_cable_test(9)
• phy_start_cable_test_tdr(9)
• phy_check_link_status(9)
• phy_inband_caps(9)
• phy_config_inband(9)
• _phy_start_aneg(9)
• phy_start_aneg(9)
• phy_speed_down(9)
• phy_speed_up(9)
• phy_start_machine(9)
• phy_stop_machine(9)
• phy_error(9)
• phy_write_barrier(9)
• phy_disable_interrupts(9)
• phy_interrupt(9)
• phy_enable_interrupts(9)
• phy_update_stats(9)
• phy_request_interrupt(9)
• phy_free_interrupt(9)
• phy_get_next_update_time(9)
• phy_state_machine(9)
• phy_stop(9)
• phy_start(9)
• phy_mac_interrupt(9)
• phy_loopback(9)
• phy_eee_tx_clock_stop_capable(9)
• phy_eee_rx_clock_stop(9)
• phy_init_eee(9)
• phy_get_eee_err(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_eee(9)
• phy_ethtool_set_eee_noneg(9)
• phy_ethtool_set_eee(9)
• phy_ethtool_set_wol(9)
• phy_ethtool_get_wol(9)

like… that's fifty-eight cross-references, the file said what it said and it ate 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this icon lives in ./drivers/net/phy, the manual is dated October 2026, and the page signs off as phy_ethtool_nway_reset(9) — periodt. 🎀⭐