ieee80211_be...ate_ema_list(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

ieee80211_beacon_get_template_ema_list — okay so this is the EMA beacon template generation situation, bestie 💖 and yes we're reading the Kernel API Manual together, grab a snack 🍓

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct ieee80211_ema_beacons * ieee80211_beacon_get_template_ema_list
(struct ieee80211_hw *hw , struct ieee80211_vif *vif , unsigned int
link_id );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • hw — your pointer, and you got it from ieee80211_alloc_hw. that's the whole vibe check for this one 🫶
  • vif — a struct ieee80211_vif pointer that came from the add_interface callback. yeah. that one.
  • link_id — the link id that this beacon belongs to ✨ (or 0 if you're running a non-MLD AP, no cap)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this function literally follows the exact same rules as ieee80211_beacon_get_template, no new lore there 👑 — BUT it goes and allocates, and hands you back, a pointer to a list of all the beacon templates you need to cover every single profile in the multiple BSSID set. it's giving "here's the whole collection, not just one" 💅

and each template in that list includes only one multiple BSSID element. just the one. that's the rule 😌

🚨 important bestie alert 🚨 your driver must call ieee80211_beacon_free_ema_list to free that memory. don't leave it hanging, that's not the move 🙈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

EMA beacon templates, of type struct ieee80211_ema_beacons * ✨ and on error you get NULL (sad but true 😭).

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

okay buckle up, this list is long long 👑 the main character file here is ./include/net/mac80211.h, and then we got the whole extended universe:

and that's the whole thing, bestie 🌈 you ate, go free your EMA list and don't forget the free call 💀 🫶✨

this page lives in ./include/net, dated October 2026 — mwah, bye 💜

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