ieee80211_ha...ake_tx_queue(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue — from the Kernel API Manual, section 9 (the name up top is literally ieee80211_ha...ake_tx_queue(9) bestie, yes it got truncated, that's just how the header rolls)

okay so picture this: you're writing a Wi-Fi driver, you open the docs, and the whole page is like four lines long. iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue — the mac80211 handler for the wake_tx_queue callback. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue (struct ieee80211_hw *hw , struct
ieee80211_txq *txq );

return type is void btw — nothing comes back out, it's giving "I do the thing and I leave" energy 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • hw — a pointer, and you get it as obtained from the wake_tx_queue callback. don't go making one up, that's not the assignment 😭
  • txq — also a pointer, also as obtained from the wake_tx_queue callback. same deal, same source, no cap.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's the tea. drivers can use this function for the mandatory wake_tx_queue callback in struct ieee80211_ops — mandatory, meaning you literally have to have it, it's not optional bestie, it's the bare minimum 👑

⚠️ and here's the part where you listen: drivers should not call this function. like, at all. it's a callback you hand over, not a function you ring up yourself. do not @ it. do not call it. it's not for you 🙈 💀

so to recap the whole personality of this page: you use it as the callback, you never invoke it. that's the entire plot. short king of a manpage fr fr 👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

okay this is the part where the page just keeps going and going, and honestly? respect. grab a snack 🍓 everything is in ./include/net/mac80211.h and every single one of these is section 9:

like I said. it just keeps going. and every one of those is a real page, go read them, i'll wait 💜

that's the whole thing bestie 🫶 this page came from ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it's living in the Kernel API Manual, section 9. mwah 💋

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