ENUM IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGED(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 enum ieee80211_conf_changed 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally about one enum — enum ieee80211_conf_changed — and ngl it's the little enum that tells the driver "hey, this thing about your config just changed, go look." 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

enum ieee80211_conf_changed — denotes which configuration changed 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum ieee80211_conf_changed {
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_SMPS ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_LISTEN_INTERVAL ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_MONITOR ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_POWER ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_RETRY_LIMITS ,
    IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE

};

bestie, look at it. nine little constants, one big vibe check on your hardware config. periodt. ✨

🎀 Constants 🎀

okay so each of these is a flag that says which piece of the config just changed — here's the full rundown, no skipping, iykyk:

  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_SMPS — Spatial multiplexing powersave mode changed 💫 but listen: this one is only valid if channel contexts are not used — otherwise each channel context has the number of chains listed. not me warning you twice, it's important fr fr.
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_LISTEN_INTERVAL — the listen interval changed 🎧
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_MONITOR — the monitor flag changed 👀
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS — the PS flag or dynamic PS timeout changed 😴
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_POWER — the TX power changed 🔥
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL — the channel/channel_type changed 🦋
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_RETRY_LIMITS — retry limits changed 🔁
  • IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE — Idle flag changed 💤

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

first up, the kernel file itself, bestie: ./include/net/mac80211.h — and then the whole extended friend group, in order, every single one, because I would never do you like that 🌈:

bestie that was a LOT of reading and you ate every single one of them 💅

and that's the whole page!! sources say this one lives in ./include/net, dated October 2026, and the title is enum ieee80211_conf_changed(9) — go off, icon, see you in the kernel source 🫶✨👑

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