ieee80211_s...x_ba_session(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes, that's the manual name, and yes, this page is a whole vibe. No synopsis-line copypaste here, we're doing this properly. The page you're on is ieee80211_s...x_ba_session(9) (the title gets truncated by the man machinery, iconic behavior honestly, she's mysterious).

🌸 NAME 🌸

ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session — literally just start a tx Block Ack session. that's the whole thing. she does one job and she does it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session (struct ieee80211_sta *sta , u16 tid ,
       u16 timeout );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • sta — the station you wanna start a BA session for. like, the homie in question 🫶
  • tid — the TID you're doing BA on.
  • timeout — the session timeout value, measured in TUs. yes, TUs. units of vibes (okay it's time units, but you knew that).

🔥 RETURN 🔥

success if the addBA request was sent, failure otherwise. that's it. no in-between, no "it depends", just slay or don't 💀

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the tea, bestie: yeah, mac80211 / the low level driver / user space application can totally estimate the need to start aggregation on a certain RA/TID — but the session level is managed by the mac80211. so don't go rogue and manage it yourself, that's not your main character moment. let mac80211 cook 👑

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

this list is long — she's giving "index page leaked into the manpage" and honestly we respect the hustle. every single one, coming right up, no cap:

pweee 💀 that's the whole squad. go read some of them, bestie, they're all right there.

lowkey tho: the sta you pass in has to be a real station, and the tid has to be the one you actually want to BA on — the session management? not your problem, mac80211's got it. she's the main character here, you're just the one sending the request ✨

and that's the page! this cutie came from ./include/net, version note says October 2026, filed under ieee80211_s...x_ba_session(9) — go forth and aggregate responsibly, ily 🫶💖🧚‍♀️

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