MAIN RESOURCES(9)

✨ Main resources 💅

okay so this is the Main resources(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s literally about how iwlmld treats resource life cycles. Bestie, it’s giving “everything has a lifespan and we respect it” energy. 🦋

iwlmld is designed with the life cycle of the resource in mind. The resources are:

• struct iwl_mld — matches mac80211’s struct ieee80211_hw. iconic. 👑
• struct iwl_mld_vif — matches macu80211’s struct ieee80211_vif. iwl_mld_vif contains an array of pointers to struct iwl_mld_link which describe the links for this vif. slay. 🔥
• struct iwl_mld_sta — matches mac80211’s struct ieee80211_sta. iwl_mld_sta contains an array of points to struct iwl_mld_link_sta which describes the link stations for this station. periodt. 💅

Each object has properties that can survive a firmware reset or not — some do, some don’t, and that’s the vibe check. Asynchronous firmware notifications can declare themselves as dependent on a certain instance of those resources, and that means the notifications will be cancelled once the instance is destroyed. no cap. 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file: ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/mld.h
• Introduction(9)
• Locking policy(9)
• Debugfs(9)
• struct iwl_mld(9)
• struct iwl_mld_mod_params(9)
• enum iwl_rx_handler_context(9)
• struct iwl_rx_handler(9)
• struct iwl_notif_struct_size(9)

xoxo, bestie 💖 the source/version is ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i..., dated October 2026. Main resources(9) out. 🎀