phy_trigger_machine(9)

💅 phy_trigger_machine(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie ✨

okay so picture this: you're deep in the Kernel API Manual, poking at the PHY layer, and you just need the state machine to go — right now, no waiting, no "soon", no queue-and-chill. That's this function. It's giving main character energy for exactly one job 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

phy_trigger_machine — trigger the state machine to run now ⚡

Literally that's it. It pokes the state machine and goes "bestie, run. now. periodt."

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void phy_trigger_machine (struct phy_device *phydev );

Returns nothing (void), takes one thing. That's the whole vibe check 🫶

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• phydev — the struct phy_device struct. Yeah. That's the whole description. It's the phy_device struct, and honestly? She said what she said 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Like, this function does not exist in a vacuum, okay? The whole friend group lives in the kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/phy.c and here's every single one of them — no cap, every last one, don't @ me 💀

• 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_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)
• phy_ethtool_nway_reset(9)

ngl go check out phy_state_machine(9) next, she's the one actually doing the running — this page is just the "hey!! wake up!!" text 💅

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 and for the sign-off: this little icon lives in ./drivers/net/phy, dated October 2026, and she's filed under phy_trigger_machine(9) — slay, bye 👑✨