iwl_mvm_start_p2p_roc(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 iwl_mvm_start_p2p_roc — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

Okay so real talk, this page is from the Kernel API Manual and it's literally all about iwl_mvm_start_p2p_roc(9). Buckle up, we're going on a channel 📡

🌸 NAME 🌸

iwl_mvm_start_p2p_roc — start remain on channel for p2p device functionality. That's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

int iwl_mvm_start_p2p_roc (struct iwl_mvm *mvm , struct ieee80211_vif
*vif , int duration , enum ieee80211_roc_type type );

Look at her. Iconic signature. No notes. 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • mvm — the mvm component. your main character struct 💜
  • vif — the virtual interface for which the roc is requested. Heads up bestie: it is assumed that the vif type is NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE — so like, don't come in here with some other type, it's giving assumptions 😭
  • duration — the requested duration in millisecond for the fw to be on the channel that is bound to the vif. milliseconds, not vibes 🕐
  • type — the remain on channel request type. yes, there are types, and yes, this is one of them ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕ — this function can be used to issue a remain on channel session, which means the fw will stay in the channel for the request duration milliseconds. It's staying. It's committed. It's not leaving the channel, periodt 💅

And the way that this function is async?? Meaning it only issues the ROC request but does not wait for it to start. She's like "sent 💌" and moves on with her life, lowkey the most efficient queen ever.

Once the FW is ready to serve the ROC request, it will issue a notification to the driver that it is on the requested channel 🔔 And once the FW completes the ROC request it will issue another notification to the driver. Two notifications, one channel, no cap. 🧚

🔥 RETURN 🔥

negative error code or 0 on success 🌈

(so like, 0 = slay, negative = the situation is not slaying 😭)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/time-event.h — Time Events - what is it?(9), Abstraction to the driver(9), plus the whole friend group honestly:

Go read them bestie, they're all linked, it's a whole ecosystem 🫶

okay that's the page!! it lives over at ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026, and the man name is iwl_mvm_start_p2p_roc(9) in case you forgot already 💖 bye, ily, go start some ROC sessions responsibly ✨🎀🦋

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