tulip_build_fake_mediatable(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

tulip_build_fake_mediatable — build a fake mediatable entry. That's the whole vibe, bestie. 💅

This is the tulip_build_fake_mediatable(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and yes, the manual name is folded in right here like a little name tag. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

It's giving void function, one pointer, zero drama:

void tulip_build_fake_mediatable (struct tulip_private *tp );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tp — a pointer to the tulip private data. Yep, that's the struct tulip_private * from the synopsis, no cap. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so some cards — like the 3x5 HSC cards (J3514A) — do not have a standard srom and can not be handled under the fixup routine. Not their fault, they're just built different. 😭

These cards still need a valid mediatable entry for correct csr12 setup and mii handling. So this function builds that fake entry, because the card still deserves to function, periodt. 💅

Since this is currently a parisc-linux specific function, the #ifdef __hppa__ should completely optimize this function away for non-parisc hardware. That's the whole point of the guard, bestie — no extra work for hardware that doesn't need it. ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c — go peek, that's the whole SEE ALSO. 👀

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Cute sign-off from the ./drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip source/version line, dated October 2026, for the tulip_build_fake_mediatable(9) page — bye bestie! 💖🎀