ENUM IWL_MAC_PROTECTION_FLAGS(9)

✨ NAME ✨

enum iwl_mac_protection_flags — the MAC context flags, bestie 💅 (yes this is from the Kernel API Manual, we're fancy now)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

enum iwl_mac_protection_flags {
    MAC_PROT_FLG_TGG_PROTECT ,
    MAC_PROT_FLG_HT_PROT ,
    MAC_PROT_FLG_FAT_PROT ,
    MAC_PROT_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN

};

👑 Constants 👑

Okay so these are the four flags in the enum, and each one has its own little personality, so let's go 🎀

• MAC_PROT_FLG_TGG_PROTECT — this one's the 11g protection vibe when you're transmitting OFDM frames. Lowkey a whole situation: it's gonna require CCK RTS/CTS2self. And the RTS/CTS protects the full burst time — full coverage, no gaps, periodt 🔥
• MAC_PROT_FLG_HT_PROT — literally just enables HT protection. That's it, that's the flag, no cap ✨
• MAC_PROT_FLG_FAT_PROT — this one protects 40 MHz transmissions 🫶 (fat channels get their bodyguard)
• MAC_PROT_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN — allows CTS2self. iconic behavior, honestly 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/mac.h and its whole friend group, fr fr — go say hi to all of them:

• enum iwl_mac_types(9)
• enum iwl_tsf_id(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_ap(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_ibss(9)
• enum iwl_mac_data_policy(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_sta(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_go(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_p2p_sta(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_pibss(9)
• enum iwl_mac_filter_flags(9)
• enum iwl_mac_qos_flags(9)
• struct iwl_ac_qos(9)
• struct iwl_mac_ctx_cmd(9)
• struct iwl_missed_beacons_notif_ver_3(9)
• struct iwl_missed_beacons_notif_v4(9)
• struct iwl_he_backoff_conf(9)
• enum iwl_he_pkt_ext_constellations(9)
• struct iwl_he_pkt_ext_v1(9)
• struct iwl_he_pkt_ext_v2(9)
• enum iwl_he_sta_ctxt_flags(9)
• enum iwl_he_htc_flags(9)
• struct iwl_he_sta_context_cmd_v1(9)
• struct iwl_he_sta_context_cmd_v2(9)
• struct iwl_he_sta_context_cmd_v3(9)
• struct iwl_he_monitor_cmd(9)

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