ENUM CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

👑 enum cfg80211_signal_type — signal type 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the enum cfg80211_signal_type(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real manual page, yes it's about wifi signal types, and yes we're gonna make it slay ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

enum cfg80211_signal_type — signal type. that's it. that's the whole name. short, sweet, iconic 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole shape of it, copy it exactly, no cap:

enum cfg80211_signal_type {
    CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_NONE ,
    CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_MBM ,
    CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC

};

literally three constants and a dream 🦋

🫶 CONSTANTS 🫶

okay so this is the part where we meet the three members of the squad, one at a time:

  • CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_NONE — no signal strength information available. like, we have zero data on how strong the signal is. nothing.  the void. 🙈 the vibe check came back blank 💀
  • CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_MBM — signal strength in mBm (100*dBm). so it's the dBm number times a hundred, that's the unit, that's the whole thing 🔥 the math is mathing
  • CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC — signal strength, increasing from 0 through 100. so it's a scale, lowkey goes up as the signal gets better, from 0 all the way to 100 ⭐

and that's part one, babe — there's more coming so don't go anywhere 💜

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

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…and then the guest list keeps going, because of course it does 💅 lowkey this is the part where the page just names every single friend it's ever had, so let's get through them all together, no skipping, no leaving anyone out of the group chat 🫶

The regulatory-and-channel-change girlies first:

Then the operating-class / chandef translation squad, they're basically the translators of the friend group 🦋:

Interface registration and general lifecycle business:

Fast transition and P2P and IE-splitting, the little details bestie:

Combinations & radio lookups — the math girlies 🔥:

Wakeup, crit proto, external auth, PMSR, assoc comeback, OWE — a whole arc honestly:

BSS and colour-change notification besties (very aesthetic, very demure 🌈):

MLO reconf and EHT things, main character energy fr fr:

The NAN extended feature set 🧚 (yes they all get their own bullet, obsessed):

Debugfs and S1G and the incumbent signal one — the deep lore 💜:

And that's the whole roster, bestie — every single name accounted for, nobody left on read 💖

Real talk though: these are pointers to other pages, not extra options for this one. Don't come for me if you skip them and get confused later 🙈

That's a wrap on the page, and honestly she ate 🌟 This one lives over in ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it's filed under enum cfg80211_signal_type(9) — go off, icon, see you in the next man session 👑✨💅

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