sxgbe_mdio_read_c45(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

sxgbe_mdio_read_c45 — bestie, the description line is literally empty in the original 🫶 like the manpage author just went "the function name says it all" and hit save. So we're not gonna invent lore, we're just gonna vibe with it, and the actual tea is down in DESCRIPTION.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int sxgbe_mdio_read_c45 (struct mii_bus *bus , int phyaddr , int devad ,
       int phyreg );

okay so it's an int-returning function, and it takes four args. four. count 'em. 🎀

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• bus — points to the mii_bus structure 💅 that's your bus handle, your whole situation
• phyaddr — address of phy port ✨ which port we're talking to
• devad — device (MMD) address 🦋 the device address for the MMD
• phyreg — address of register with in phy register 👑 yes, "with in" — that's verbatim from the original, and it means: the register address inside the phy register. iconic. no cap.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

this function is used for C45 MDIO Read 🌈 that's it, that's the whole thing. she's a reader, she reads in the C45 flavour of MDIO. periodt.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_mdio.c 🍓
• sxgbe_mdio_read_c22(9)
• sxgbe_mdio_write_c22(9)
• sxgbe_mdio_write_c45(9)

the whole c22/c45 read/write friend group 💖 go check them out, iykyk

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ngl bestie this one is short and sweet — no options, no env vars, no exit statuses, no warnings, no bugs listed. just a function, its four args, and her little friend group in SEE ALSO 🌸

starring the kernel source ./drivers/net/ethernet/samsung... — like the original literally truncates it with ... and i'm not fixing it, that's the aesthetic 🙈 — dated October 2026, and that's the sign-off babes, mwah 💋✨ 🧚‍♀️