reg_process_hint_core(9)

💅 reg_process_hint_core(9) — like, the whole Kernel API Manual vibe, bestie ✨

okay so real talk, we're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and today's main character is reg_process_hint_core 💖 grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's go.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

reg_process_hint_core — process core regulatory requests 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum reg_request_treatment reg_process_hint_core (struct
       regulatory_request *core_request );

literally that's the whole signature, no cap 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• core_request — a pending core regulatory request. yes bestie, that's the one, the request that's still pending, sitting there waiting for its moment 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the wireless subsystem can use this function to process a regulatory request issued by the regulatory core. that's it, that's the gig ✨ the wireless subsystem is the one calling, the regulatory core is the one who issued the request, and this little icon right here handles it. main character energy fr fr 🌈

🔥 RETURN 🔥

it gives you back REG_REQ_OK or REG_REQ_IGNORE — which, iykyk, just tells you if the hint was processed or ignored 👑 no in-between, no surprises 💀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file ./net/wireless/reg.c
• Wireless regulatory infrastructure(9)
• enum reg_request_treatment(9)
• freq_in_rule_band(9)
• regdom_intersect(9)
• reg_process_hint_user(9)
• reg_process_hint_driver(9)
• reg_process_hint_country_ie(9)

go read the whole lil friend group, they all slay in their own way 🧚

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and that's the page!! sign-off time: this icon lives in ./net/wireless, dated October 2026, and we're closing out reg_process_hint_core(9) — periodt 💅🎀🦋