phylink_mii_...s_an_restart(9)

💖 phylink_mii_c22_pcs_an_restart(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — we're doing kernel networking today and honestly? it's giving glow-up energy ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

phylink_mii_c22_pcs_an_restart — restart 802.3z autonegotiation 🔥

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

void phylink_mii_c22_pcs_an_restart (struct mdio_device *pcs );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pcs — a pointer to a struct mdio_device. literally just a pointer, she's simple, she's iconic 💅

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this one is a helper for MAC PCS — specifically the kind that supports the 802.3 clause 22 register set for clause 37 negotiation. no cap, that's the whole assignment 🫶

what does it actually do? it restarts the clause 37 negotiation with the link partner. that's it. that's the vibe. 🔁

and here's the slay part: it's suitable to be directly plugged into the pcs_get_state member of the struct phylink_pcs_ops structure. like, no wrapper, no adapter, just drop her in and go 😭✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/phy/phylink.c — and honestly the whole phylink friend group showed up to the group chat:

• struct phylink(9)
• 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_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_replay_link_begin(9)
• phylink_replay_link_end(9)

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💀 reminder bestie: this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — don't go looking for it in section 1, she's not there 🙈

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 mwah 💖 this one came from ./drivers/net/phy, dated October 2026 — go off, driver directory, periodt 👑✨