ieee80211_mps_frame_release(9)

💅 ieee80211_mps_frame_release(9)

okay so this is a Kernel API Manual page, and bestie, we're talking about mesh power save and how buffered frames finally get released ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ieee80211_mps_frame_release — the function that releases frames that were buffered because of mesh power save 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void ieee80211_mps_frame_release (struct sta_info *sta , struct
ieee802_11_elems *elems );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• sta — the mesh STA 👑 (that's the station we're doing all this for)
• elems — the IEs from a beacon or probe response 🧚 (yep, the information elements, freshly parsed)

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so for peers: if we've got individually-addressed frames buffered, or the peer is telling us it has buffered frames, we send a corresponding MPSP trigger frame. periodt 💅

and here's the little detail — since we do not evaluate the awake window duration (like, at all, we're not even looking at it 🙈), QoS Nulls are what get used as MPSP trigger frames. that's the move.

if the neighbour STA isn't a peer? then we only send single frames. no trigger frame energy for non-peers, that's the rule 🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Kernel file ./net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
• mps_qos_null_get(9)
• mps_qos_null_tx(9)
• ieee80211_mps_local_status_update(9)
• ieee80211_mps_set_sta_local_pm(9)
• ieee80211_mps_set_frame_flags(9)
• ieee80211_mps_sta_status_update(9)
• ieee80211_mps_rx_h_sta_process(9)
• mpsp_qos_null_append(9)
• mps_frame_deliver(9)
• ieee80211_mpsp_trigger_process(9)

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ngl bestie, if you're digging into mesh_ps.c you're gonna want all of those — they're the whole mesh power save friend group and they slay together 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! 🍓 this one lives in ./net/mac80211 and it's dated October 2026 — so like, future vibes only 💜 bye bestie, go release those frames 😭💖