yt8821_update_interface(9)

💫 yt8821_update_interface(9) — Kernel API Manual 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for yt8821_update_interface — she's a tiny little function from the kernel side of the internet and honestly? she's giving "quiet luxury". one job. zero drama. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

yt8821_update_interface — updates the interface per the current speed 🦋

like, the speed changed, so the interface gets a lil refresh. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void yt8821_update_interface (struct phy_device *phydev );

note that she returns void, bestie — she does her thing and she does not report back. main character energy, honestly 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• phydev — a pointer to a struct phy_device ✨ that's it. that's the whole guest list. one single pointer, and she's a pointer to a struct phy_device, so you already know what to hand her.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay this is the section where the manpage flexes its entire friend group and ngl it is huge. the Kernel file lives at ./drivers/net/phy/motorcomm.c, and here's every single icon in the group chat — not me listing all of them, but I would never leave one out 🙈

• ytphy_read_ext(9)
• ytphy_read_ext_with_lock(9)
• ytphy_write_ext(9)
• ytphy_write_ext_with_lock(9)
• ytphy_modify_ext(9)
• ytphy_modify_ext_with_lock(9)
• ytphy_get_wol(9)
• ytphy_set_wol(9)
• yt8521_read_page(9)
• yt8521_write_page(9)
• struct ytphy_cfg_reg_map(9)
• struct ytphy_ldo_vol_map(9)
• yt8521_probe(9)
• ytphy_utp_read_lpa(9)
• yt8521_adjust_status(9)
• yt8521_read_status_paged(9)
• yt8521_read_status(9)
• yt8521_modify_bmcr_paged(9)
• yt8521_modify_utp_fiber_bmcr(9)
• yt8521_soft_reset(9)
• yt8521_suspend(9)
• yt8521_resume(9)
• yt8521_config_init(9)
• yt8531_link_change_notify(9)
• yt8521_prepare_fiber_features(9)
• yt8521_fiber_setup_forced(9)
• ytphy_check_and_restart_aneg(9)
• yt8521_fiber_config_aneg(9)
• ytphy_setup_master_slave(9)
• ytphy_utp_config_advert(9)
• ytphy_utp_config_aneg(9)
• yt8521_config_aneg_paged(9)
• yt8521_config_aneg(9)
• yt8521_aneg_done_paged(9)
• yt8521_aneg_done(9)
• ytphy_utp_read_abilities(9)
• yt8521_get_features_paged(9)
• yt8521_get_features(9)
• yt8821_get_features(9)
• yt8821_get_rate_matching(9)
• yt8821_aneg_done(9)
• yt8821_serdes_init(9)
• yt8821_utp_init(9)
• yt8821_auto_sleep_config(9)
• yt8821_soft_reset(9)
• yt8821_config_init(9)
• yt8821_adjust_status(9)
• yt8821_read_status(9)
• yt8821_modify_utp_fiber_bmcr(9)
• yt8821_suspend(9)
• yt8821_resume(9)

literally the whole extended universe, iykyk 🌈

fr fr do NOT skip this section — if you're poking at yt8821_update_interface, half the time the thing you actually want is one of her fifty-one besties up there. the manpage said so. I'm just the messenger 💖

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🧚 sign-off 🧚

and that's the tea, bestie! this little cutie lives over in ./drivers/net/phy and she was documented way out in October 2026 — so go forth, pass her a struct phy_device *, and let her update that interface per the current speed. slay, honestly. 💜🎀⭐