reg_process_hint_country_ie(9)

✨ reg_process_hint_country_ie(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes that Kernel API Manual, the one your Linux-obsessed friend keeps talking about 🐧💖 — and today's main character is reg_process_hint_country_ie. Buckle up, it's giving wireless-regulatory-core realness.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

reg_process_hint_country_ie — the function that processes regulatory requests coming from country IEs. no cap, that's literally the whole job 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

enum reg_request_treatment reg_process_hint_country_ie (struct wiphy
*wiphy , struct regulatory_request *country_ie_request );

two arguments, one enum return, zero drama. copy it exactly, bestie, character for character 🎀

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so the wireless subsystem can use this function to process a regulatory request that was issued by a country Information Element. that's it, that's the vibe ✨

like, when a country IE shows up with opinions about how the radio should behave, this is the little icon that handles it. lowkey important, highkey iconic 👑

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• wiphy — the wireless device that this regulatory request is for. it's the struct wiphy *, and yes you have to pass it, no skipping 🙈
• country_ie_request — a regulatory request from a country IE. it's a struct regulatory_request *, and it's the whole reason we're here fr fr.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

returns one of the different reg request treatment values — like, one of the reg_request_treatment options, not a random number, not vibes, an actual treatment value 💫

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🔥 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_core(9)
• reg_process_hint_user(9)
• reg_process_hint_driver(9)

go read all of them, i'll wait 🫶

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ok and that's the whole page, bestie 💀 no hidden lore, no extra flags, nothing sneaky. just a very good little regulatory function doing its thing ✨

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🎀 and that's a wrap! this masterpiece lives in ./net/wireless, dated October 2026, and it's page reg_process_hint_country_ie(9) of the Kernel API Manual. slay, read responsibly, and may your regulatory requests always be treated correctly 💖🦋🌸