ENUM IEEE80211_RATE_FLAGS(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

enum ieee80211_rate_flags — rate flags 💖 (this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, btw, section 9 — iykyk)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum ieee80211_rate_flags {
    IEEE80211_RATE_SHORT_PREAMBLE ,
    IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_A ,
    IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_B ,
    IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_G ,
    IEEE80211_RATE_ERP_G ,
    IEEE80211_RATE_SUPPORTS_5MHZ ,
    IEEE80211_RATE_SUPPORTS_10MHZ

};

🎀 CONSTANTS 🎀

okay bestie, here's the whole squad — every single flag, no skips, we're covering all seven 💅

  • IEEE80211_RATE_SHORT_PREAMBLE — this one means the hardware can send with a short preamble on this bitrate. heads up tho: it's only relevant in the 2.4GHz band and with CCK rates, so don't come for me if it's doing nothing elsewhere 🙈
  • IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_A — this bitrate is a mandatory rate when used with 802.11a (that's the 5 GHz band 🌈). the core code fills this one in for you when the wiphy gets registered, so you're literally not doing it yourself 🫶
  • IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_B — this bitrate is a mandatory rate when used with 802.11b (the 2.4 GHz band this time 🍓). again, filled by the core code when registering the wiphy — you just vibe, it handles the paperwork 💖
  • IEEE80211_RATE_MANDATORY_G — this bitrate is a mandatory rate when used with 802.11g (yep, 2.4 GHz band again 🌸). and yes, same deal: the core code fills it in at wiphy registration ✨
  • IEEE80211_RATE_ERP_G — this is an ERP rate in 802.11g mode. that's it, that's the whole flag 👑
  • IEEE80211_RATE_SUPPORTS_5MHZ — the rate can be used in 5 MHz mode 🔥
  • IEEE80211_RATE_SUPPORTS_10MHZ — the rate can be used in 10 MHz mode 🔥🔥

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so these are the hardware/specification flags for rates, and the way they're structured is genuinely iconic — it lets you use the same bitrate structure across different bands and PHY modes 😭💜 no duplicating your whole rate table for every mode, we love a structurally sound queen.

like, the design is not just cute, it's doing actual work: same struct, different flags, different band/PHY context. ate and left no crumbs 💅

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay bestie, hydrate first 🍓 because this one is long — but every single name below is copied exactly, character for character, so you can man any of them and find the real thing. no cap 💅

and yeah, the list literally keeps going after this 💀 we are not done — see you in the next part, bestie 🫶

okay that's the whole reading list 💖 like yes it's a lot of (9) pages, but that's the vibe — you don't have to read them all in one sitting, bestie, nobody's timing you 🫶

ngl if you got all the way down here you kind of ate that. no cap. iconic behavior 💅

🌸 the cute little sign-off 🌸

This one lives over in ./include/net, dropped in October 2026, and it's the enum ieee80211_rate_flags(9) page — go forth and slay your kernel docs reading, bestie, I'm rooting for you fr fr ✨🎀🦋

📦 where this page comes from