phylink_caps_to_link_caps(9)

💅 phylink_caps_to_link_caps(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the phylink_caps_to_link_caps(9) page, like the actual kernel API manual entry, and no cap it's a little cutie. we're in the Kernel API Manual, mwah 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

phylink_caps_to_link_caps — Convert a set of MAC capabilities LINK caps 🦋

like. literally. it takes MAC caps and hands you the LINK caps. the way that it just converts them? iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

unsigned long phylink_caps_to_link_caps (unsigned long caps );

that's the whole vibe. unsigned long in, unsigned long out, caps in the middle, periodt 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• caps — A set of MAC capabilities. that's it, that's the girl. hand her your MAC caps and she'll know what to do 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

The corresponding set of LINK_CAPA as defined in phy-caps.h. so you give her MAC caps, she gives you back the LINK_CAPA set from phy-caps.h — matching, corresponding, slaying 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

bestie there is SO much lore here, and we are not skipping a single one, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
• struct phylink(9)
• phylink_set_port_modes(9)
• phylink_interface_max_speed(9)
• phylink_caps_to_linkmodes(9)
• phylink_limit_mac_speed(9)
• phylink_cap_from_speed_duplex(9)
• phylink_get_capabilities(9)
• phylink_validate_mask_caps(9)
• phylink_pcs_neg_mode(9)
• phylink_set_fixed_link(9)
• phylink_create(9)
• phylink_destroy(9)
• phylink_expects_phy(9)
• phylink_connect_phy(9)
• phylink_of_phy_connect(9)
• phylink_fwnode_phy_connect(9)
• phylink_disconnect_phy(9)
• phylink_mac_change(9)
• phylink_pcs_change(9)
• phylink_start(9)
• phylink_stop(9)
• phylink_rx_clk_stop_block(9)
• phylink_rx_clk_stop_unblock(9)
• phylink_suspend(9)
• phylink_prepare_resume(9)
• phylink_resume(9)
• phylink_ethtool_get_wol(9)
• phylink_ethtool_set_wol(9)
• phylink_ethtool_ksettings_get(9)
• phylink_ethtool_ksettings_set(9)
• phylink_ethtool_nway_reset(9)
• phylink_ethtool_get_pauseparam(9)
• phylink_ethtool_set_pauseparam(9)
• phylink_get_eee_err(9)
• phylink_ethtool_get_eee(9)
• phylink_ethtool_set_eee(9)
• phylink_mii_ioctl(9)
• phylink_speed_down(9)
• phylink_speed_up(9)
• phylink_decode_usxgmii_word(9)
• phylink_decode_usgmii_word(9)
• phylink_mii_c22_pcs_decode_state(9)
• phylink_mii_c22_pcs_get_state(9)
• phylink_mii_c22_pcs_encode_advertisement(9)
• phylink_mii_c22_pcs_config(9)
• phylink_mii_c22_pcs_an_restart(9)
• phylink_replay_link_begin(9)
• phylink_replay_link_end(9)

like, the whole phylink friend group showed up to the function. we love a supportive cast 💜

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and that's the page, bestie!! before you go — cute lil sign-off moment: this one lives over in ./drivers/net/phy, dated October 2026, and it's the phylink_caps_to_link_caps(9) manual page. go convert those caps, you absolute main character 🌈💖