rnpgbe_reset_hw(9)

💅 rnpgbe_reset_hw(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page you've been waiting for 🎀

okay bestie, sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, because we're diving into rnpgbe_reset_hw from the Kernel API Manual. yes, the actual manual. no cap, this one's short but iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

rnpgbe_reset_hw — it does a hardware reset. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int rnpgbe_reset_hw (struct mucse_hw *hw );

like, that's the signature, copy it exactly pls, don't @ me 🙈

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• hw — the hw information structure 🫶 that's the whole description, she's lowkey mysterious, we respect it.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what does she do? rnpgbe_reset_hw calls fw to do a hardware reset — yes, an actual reset, of the hardware, through the firmware 🔥 — and then it cleans some regs back to default. little cleanup era, we love a function that tidies up after itself ✨🧹

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✨ RETURN ✨

• 0 on success 🎉 slay, she did it
• negative errno on failure 😭 it's giving "something went wrong bestie"

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the kernel file, literally right here:

./drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_chip.c

and her besties, the whole friend group 👑:

• rnpgbe_get_permanent_mac(9)
• rnpgbe_send_notify(9)
• rnpgbe_init_n500(9)
• rnpgbe_init_n210(9)
• rnpgbe_init_hw(9)

go read them, iykyk 🌸

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fr fr, keep in mind: she's resetting hardware and touching regs, so like… don't be reckless. the return value is your vibe check — 0 good, negative errno bad 💀

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and that's the page, bestie 🦋 source and version come from ./drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/r..., dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's a Scorpio or whatever, iconic either way 💜🎀✨