ENUM IEEE80211_PACKET_RX_FLAGS(9)

💖 enum ieee80211_packet_rx_flags(9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is enum ieee80211_packet_rx_flags ✨ literally the packet RX flags enum. she's small, she's specific, and she ate. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

enum ieee80211_packet_rx_flags — packet RX flags 💅 that's the whole vibe, no notes.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum ieee80211_packet_rx_flags {
    IEEE80211_RX_AMSDU ,
    IEEE80211_RX_MALFORMED_ACTION_FRM ,
    IEEE80211_RX_DEFERRED_RELEASE

};

that's the whole enum, three members, comma-space situation and a lil blank line before the closing brace — we keep it exactly like that, no cap 😌

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🦋 Constants 🦋

• IEEE80211_RX_AMSDU — a-MSDU packet 📦✨ (yes, the lowercase "a" is canon, that's how the manpage says it, respect her)
• IEEE80211_RX_MALFORMED_ACTION_FRM — action frame is malformed 💀 like the frame showed up to the party and something was Wrong with it
• IEEE80211_RX_DEFERRED_RELEASE — frame was subjected to receive reordering 🔁 the frame got held back and shuffled around before release, iykyk

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🧚 Description 🧚

so here's the lore, bestie: these are per-frame flags — one frame, one set of flags, very personal, very individual 🌈 — and they get attached to a frame in the rx_flags field of struct ieee80211_rx_status. that's it. that's the tea ☕ the flags live in that field on that struct, and each frame gets her own.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

like bestie please go read the source of truth first:

• Kernel file ./net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h enum

and then the whole friend group, go say hi 😭💖:

• enum ieee80211_bss_corrupt_data_flags(9)
• enum ieee80211_bss_valid_data_flags(9)
• enum ieee80211_rx_flags(9)
• struct ieee80211_if_ocb(9)
• struct ieee80211_mesh_sync_ops(9)
• struct mesh_table(9)
• struct mesh_tx_cache(9)
• enum ieee80211_sub_if_data_flags(9)
• enum ieee80211_sdata_state_bits(9)
• enum ieee80211_chanctx_mode(9)
• enum ieee80211_chanctx_replace_state(9)
• struct txq_info(9)
• struct ieee80211_if_nan(9)
• struct ieee80211_if_nan_data(9)
• enum mac80211_scan_flags(9)
• enum mac80211_scan_state(9)
• ieee80211_parse_ch_switch_ie(9)
• struct ieee80211_elems_parse_params(9)

ngl that's a whole group chat worth of cross-references and every single one of them is required reading for the lore 🫶 not me listing all of them because we do NOT skip the boring parts, periodt 💅

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okay that's the page!! 🎀 source lives in ./net/mac80211 and the date on this one is October 2026 — so like, go forth and read ieee80211_i.h, mwah, bye bestie 💜🦋⭐