ENUM IEEE80211_STA_INFO_FLAGS(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags — the station flags enum, bestie 💖 (also known as the Kernel API Manual, in case you were wondering which manual you were reading 🎀)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
    WLAN_STA_AUTH ,
    WLAN_STA_ASSOC ,
    WLAN_STA_PS_STA ,
    WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED ,
    WLAN_STA_SHORT_PREAMBLE ,
    WLAN_STA_WDS ,
    WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT ,
    WLAN_STA_MFP ,
    WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA ,
    WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER ,
    WLAN_STA_PSPOLL ,
    WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER ,
    WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER_AUTH ,
    WLAN_STA_TDLS_INITIATOR ,
    WLAN_STA_TDLS_CHAN_SWITCH ,
    WLAN_STA_TDLS_OFF_CHANNEL ,
    WLAN_STA_TDLS_WIDER_BW ,
    WLAN_STA_UAPSD ,
    WLAN_STA_SP ,
    WLAN_STA_4ADDR_EVENT ,
    WLAN_STA_INSERTED ,
    WLAN_STA_RATE_CONTROL ,
    WLAN_STA_TOFFSET_KNOWN ,
    WLAN_STA_MPSP_OWNER ,
    WLAN_STA_MPSP_RECIPIENT ,
    WLAN_STA_PS_DELIVER ,
    WLAN_STA_USES_ENCRYPTION ,
    WLAN_STA_DECAP_OFFLOAD ,
    NUM_WLAN_STA_FLAGS

};

🎀 Constants 🎀

okay so here's the whole cast of characters, one by one, no skipping 👑

• WLAN_STA_AUTH — station is authenticated ✨
• WLAN_STA_ASSOC — station is associated 🫶
• WLAN_STA_PS_STA — station is in power-save mode 😴
• WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED — station is authorized to send/receive traffic. Heads up: this bit is always checked, so it needs to be enabled for all stations when virtual port control is not in use 💅
• WLAN_STA_SHORT_PREAMBLE — station is capable of receiving short-preamble frames 🦋
• WLAN_STA_WDS — station is one of our WDS peers 🤝
• WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT — clear the PS filter in hardware (using the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT control flag) when the next frame to this station is transmitted 🧹
• WLAN_STA_MFP — management frame protection is used with this STA 🔐
• WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA — used to deny ADDBA requests (both TX and RX) during suspend/resume and station removal 🚫
• WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER — driver requires keeping this station in power-save mode logically, so it can flush frames that might still be in the queues 🌊
• WLAN_STA_PSPOLL — station sent PS-poll while the driver was keeping the station in power-save mode; reply when the driver unblocks 📨
• WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER — station is a TDLS peer 🌈
• WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER_AUTH — this TDLS peer is authorized to send direct packets, which means the link is enabled ✅
• WLAN_STA_TDLS_INITIATOR — we are the initiator of the TDLS link with this station 🙋‍♀️
• WLAN_STA_TDLS_CHAN_SWITCH — this TDLS peer supports TDLS channel-switching 🔀
• WLAN_STA_TDLS_OFF_CHANNEL — the local STA is currently off-channel with this TDLS peer 📴
• WLAN_STA_TDLS_WIDER_BW — this TDLS peer supports working on a wider bw on the BSS base channel 📶
• WLAN_STA_UAPSD — station requested unscheduled SP while the driver was keeping the station in power-save mode; reply when the driver unblocks the station ⏳
• WLAN_STA_SP — station is in a service period, so don't try to reply to other uAPSD trigger frames or PS-Poll 🙅‍♀️
• WLAN_STA_4ADDR_EVENT — 4-addr event was already sent for this frame 📬
• WLAN_STA_INSERTED — this station is inserted into the hash table 🗂️
• WLAN_STA_RATE_CONTROL — rate control was initialized for this station 📈
• WLAN_STA_TOFFSET_KNOWN — toffset calculated for this station is valid ✔️
• WLAN_STA_MPSP_OWNER — local STA is owner of a mesh Peer Service Period 👑
• WLAN_STA_MPSP_RECIPIENT — local STA is recipient of a MPSP 🎁
• WLAN_STA_PS_DELIVER — station woke up, but we're still blocking TX until pending frames are delivered 😭
• WLAN_STA_USES_ENCRYPTION — this station was configured for encryption, so drop all packets without a key later 🔑
• WLAN_STA_DECAP_OFFLOAD — this station uses rx decap offload 🍓
• NUM_WLAN_STA_FLAGS — the number of defined flags 🔢

🦋 Description 🦋

So like… these flags are used with struct sta_info's flags member — but only indirectly, through set_sta_flag and friends 💫. That's the whole vibe. iykyk.

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

Kernel file ./net/mac80211/sta_info.h — and the whole friend group:

• struct tid_ampdu_tx(9)
• struct tid_ampdu_rx(9)
• struct sta_ampdu_mlme(9)
• struct ieee80211_fast_tx(9)
• struct ieee80211_fast_rx(9)
• struct mesh_sta(9)
• struct link_sta_info(9)
• struct ieee80211_sta_removed_link_stats(9)
• struct sta_info(9)
• __sta_info_flush(9)
• sta_info_flush(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🫶✨ this lil gem lives in ./net/mac80211, dated October 2026, and it's filed under enum ieee80...a_info_flags(9) in the Kernel API Manual — slay, go read some kernel source, ily 💖🎀🦋