phylink_ethtool_set_eee(9)

💅 phylink_ethtool_set_eee ✨

okay so this one's from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel internals bestie 🫶), and it's literally the function that sets your Energy Efficient Ethernet params. EEE! the sleepy-time-for-your-NIC feature 💤 no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

phylink_ethtool_set_eee — set the energy efficient ethernet parameters. that's it, that's the whole job 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int phylink_ethtool_set_eee(struct phylink *pl, struct ethtool_keee *eee);

she returns an int, she takes two pointers, she slays 💅

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• pl — a pointer to a struct phylink — and not just any one, it's the one you got handed back from phylink_create. like, the original. the source. don't be out here making up your own 👑
• eee — a pointer to a struct ethtool_keee holding the parameters you desire. yes bestie, the desired parameters, your dream EEE config 🌈

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

the main character file first, obviously: the kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/phylink.c plus struct phylink(9) — that's the struct, that's where it all lives 🏠

and then the whole extended friend group, all 47 of them, no one gets left out fr fr:

• phylink_set_port_modes(9)
• phylink_interface_max_speed(9)
• phylink_caps_to_link_caps(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_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 rollout 😭 every single one of them is invited to the group chat 💜 (and yeah, usxgmii and usgmii are both in there — two different words, both real, don't @ me 💀)

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ngl this page is short but she's iconic. go set those EEE params, bestie 🦋

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signing off from ./drivers/net/phy 🌸 version October 2026 🎀 that's the vibe, that's the release, periodt 💅✨