cfg80211_merge_profile(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 NAME 💅

cfg80211_merge_profile — bestie, this one merges a MBSSID profile when it's been split up between IEs 🧩✨

So like, the kernel API manual page is cfg80211_merge_profile(9), and here's the whole vibe 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

size_t cfg80211_merge_profile(const u8 *ie, size_t ielen,
                              const struct element *mbssid_elem,
                              const struct element *sub_elem,
                              u8 *merged_ie, size_t max_copy_len);

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • ie — the ies. that's it. that's the whole description. iconic honestly 🎀
  • ielen — length of IEs, aka how much ie we're working with 📏
  • mbssid_elem — the current MBSSID element, main character energy 👑
  • sub_elem — the current MBSSID subelement (the profile) 🦋
  • merged_ie — where the merged profile goes to live, its forever home 🏡💖
  • max_copy_len — max merged profile length, so pls don't overflow, we're begging 🙈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns the number of bytes merged 🔢 — lowkey the most important number in this whole function ngl.

bestie there's more of this page coming, don't scroll away yet 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

okay so this is the part of the page where the author just... lists the entire kernel at you 💀 no cap, it's a lot. But it's also lowkey the best part, because every single one of these is a doc page you can jump to next, and they all live in the kernel file ./include/net/cfg80211.h. I'm not skipping a single one — you know I wouldn't do you like that 🫶

🎀 the very first ones

  • Kernel file ./include/net/cfg80211.h
  • Introduction(9)
  • Device registration(9)

✨ channels, rates, bands & iftype data (the radio-nerd starter pack)

💅 actions and configuration (the big one, buckle up)

🦋 scanning and BSS list handling

  • Scanning and BSS list handling(9)
  • struct cfg80211_ssid(9)
  • struct cfg80211_scan_info(9)
  • struct cfg80211_scan_6ghz_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_scan_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_match_set(9)
  • struct cfg80211_sched_scan_plan(9)
  • struct cfg80211_bss_select_adjust(9)
  • struct cfg80211_sched_scan_request(9)
  • enum cfg80211_signal_type(9)
  • struct cfg80211_inform_bss(9)
  • struct cfg80211_bss_ies(9)
  • struct cfg80211_bss(9)
  • ieee80211_bss_get_elem(9)
  • ieee80211_bss_get_ie(9)
  • struct cfg80211_auth_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_assoc_link(9)
  • struct cfg80211_ml_reconf_req(9)
  • enum cfg80211_assoc_req_flags(9)
  • struct cfg80211_assoc_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_deauth_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_disassoc_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_ibss_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_bss_selection(9)
  • struct cfg80211_connect_params(9)
  • enum cfg80211_connect_params_changed(9)
  • enum wiphy_params_flags(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmksa(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pkt_pattern(9)
  • struct cfg80211_wowlan_tcp(9)
  • struct cfg80211_wowlan(9)
  • struct cfg80211_coalesce_rules(9)
  • struct cfg80211_coalesce(9)
  • struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_match(9)
  • struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_info(9)
  • struct cfg80211_wowlan_wakeup(9)
  • struct cfg80211_gtk_rekey_data(9)
  • struct cfg80211_update_ft_ies_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_mgmt_tx_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_dscp_exception(9)
  • struct cfg80211_dscp_range(9)
  • struct cfg80211_qos_map(9)

🌸 NAN besties + the auth/pmksa/pmsr crew

  • Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN)(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_band_config(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_conf(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_channel(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_local_sched(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_peer_map(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_peer_sched(9)
  • enum cfg80211_nan_conf_changes(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_func_filter(9)
  • struct cfg80211_nan_func(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmk_conf(9)
  • struct cfg80211_external_auth_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_ftm_responder_stats(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_ftm_result(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_result(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_ftm_request_peer(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_request_peer(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_update_owe_info(9)
  • struct mgmt_frame_regs(9)

👑 ops, wiphy flags, iface combos & vendor command scaffolding

  • struct cfg80211_ops(9)
  • enum wiphy_flags(9)
  • struct ieee80211_iface_limit(9)
  • struct ieee80211_iface_combination(9)
  • enum wiphy_wowlan_support_flags(9)
  • struct wiphy_wowlan_support(9)
  • struct wiphy_coalesce_support(9)
  • enum wiphy_vendor_command_flags(9)
  • enum wiphy_opmode_flag(9)
  • struct sta_opmode_info(9)
  • struct wiphy_vendor_command(9)
  • struct wiphy_iftype_ext_capab(9)
  • cfg80211_get_iftype_ext_capa(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_capabilities(9)
  • struct wiphy_iftype_akm_suites(9)
  • struct wiphy_radio_cfg(9)
  • struct wiphy_radio_freq_range(9)
  • struct wiphy_radio(9)
  • enum wiphy_nan_flags(9)
  • struct wiphy_nan_capa(9)

💖 the wiphy life cycle saga (struct wiphy and every wiphy_* under the sun)

🧚 utility functions (little helpers, big main character energy)

🌈 data path helpers

🔥 regulatory enforcement infrastructure + internal regulatory db functions

🍓 scan completion, informing BSS, and all the mlme dramatics

⭐ RFkill integration, vendor commands & test mode

💜 connect / roam / disconnect notification central

🙈 rx/tx mgmt, cqm notifications & radar/cac events

okay so that's genuinely every single reference the page throws at you, in the exact same order, nothing dropped 💅 the way this list just keeps going is iconic honestly — like yes queen, cite the whole kernel, we love an overachiever ✨

…and fr fr, the see-also list is giving extended cinematic universe, so here's the whole friend group, in the exact order the page serves them — no skips, no cuts, we don't do that here 🫶

like, that's a lot of siblings, bestie 😭 but every single one is linked on purpose, so if you're hunting something adjacent to profiles and merges, it's lowkey probably in there. go click around, iykyk 🔥

okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 👑💅

this lil beauty ships out of the ./include/net directory, dated October 2026, and it's filed under the extremely iconic name cfg80211_merge_profile(9) — that's the whole footer, periodt 🎀✨🦋

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