stmmac_mdio_reset(9)

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💅 stmmac_mdio_reset(9) — the Kernel API Manual page, but make it make sense

Okay so bestie, welcome to the glow-up of stmmac_mdio_reset(9) — that's section 9 of the Kernel API Manual, iykyk. This is the little reset hook for the MII bus, and honestly? It's short, it's sweet, and it ate. Let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

stmmac_mdio_reset — and the original manpage left the description completely blank. Not me exposing that 💀. So like, no tagline, no vibe check, nothing — just the name and then silence. Iconic in a mysterious way, honestly.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int stmmac_mdio_reset (struct mii_bus *bus );

That's the whole signature, periodt. It returns an int and takes exactly one argument. Simple. Clean. Main character energy 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • bus — points to the mii_bus structure. That's it, that's the whole argument list, no cap. It's a pointer, it's to an mii_bus, and it's literally the only thing you hand this function 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Reset the MII bus.

Yep. That's the entire description, bestie — one line, no filler, no lore, no extra caveats. It resets the MII bus and it does not elaborate even a little bit 🙈. We respect the brevity though, fr fr.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The source lives in the kernel file:

./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c

And here's the whole squad it runs with — every single one, in the order the manpage gave them 💜

✨ Tiny reminder: the description really is just "reset the MII bus" — I'm not gatekeeping anything from you, there's genuinely nothing else on the page. No hidden options, no env vars, no exit statuses. Just vibes and a function signature. 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie — go reset that bus 🌈

🌸 This cutie of a page came from the source ./drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro... (they truncated it in the footer, so we're keeping it exactly like that, no edits 💅) and it's dated October 2026. Mwah, ily, go read the kernel source 🍓💖

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