cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status — the Kernel API Manual (section 9) girlie is here to explain 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the <pink>Kernel API Manual</pink>, section 9, and today's main character is cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status — literally the function that tells the world "hey, I tried to send that management frame, here's how it went." 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status — notification of TX status for management frame 💌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status (struct wireless_dev *wdev , u64 cookie ,
       const u8 *buf , size_t len , bool ack , gfp_t gfp );

that's the whole vibe check right there — six args, void return, no cap. 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • wdev — the wireless device that's receiving the frame 💖 the one getting the gossip, basically.
  • cookie — the cookie returned by cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx 🍪 yes it's literally called a cookie and yes we're obsessed with that.
  • buf — the management frame itself (header + body) 📨 the whole package, not just a piece of it.
  • len — length of the frame data 📏 how many bytes we're working with, fr fr.
  • ack — whether frame was acknowledged ✅ like, did it actually land or not, bestie.
  • gfp — context flags 🚩 the context flags, keeping it real.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea 🔥 — this function is called whenever a management frame was requested to be transmitted with cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx, and its whole job is to report the TX status of the transmission attempt. that's it, that's the function. she reports. she slays. periodt. 💅

think of it like the read receipt for your management frame — somebody asked for it to go out via cfg80211_ops::mgmt_tx, and cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status shows up to say how the attempt went down. 🌈

more parts are coming bestie, don't go anywhere 🧚✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

The SEE ALSO section is basically the extended cinematic universe of this manpage 😭💅. The kernel file ./include/net/cfg80211.h is the main source file these pages orbit around, and here’s the full cross-ref guest list, in order — no skips, no “we’ll circle back,” the whole thing is right here:

...and the SEE ALSO list? bestie she is long, like genuinely a whole scroll journey. grab a snack, we're going through all of them 💅

okay that's the whole reading list, you're officially caught up bestie 🫶 this page lives in ./include/net, it's dated October 2026, and the version header is cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(9) — that's the whole footer, no cap, go touch some grass now 🌸

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