rsi_mac80211_attach(9)

💖 rsi_mac80211_attach — Kernel API Manual energy 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the rsi_mac80211_attach(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the little function that gets your Mac80211 stack all cute and ready to go — like doing your skincare routine before bed but for a wireless driver 🧖‍♀️

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rsi_mac80211_attach — literally the function you call to initialize the Mac80211 stack. that's it, that's the vibe. it sets things up so the rest of the driver can actually function 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int rsi_mac80211_attach (struct rsi_common *common );

she takes one argument, she returns an int, she's a whole main character 💁‍♀️

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• common — a pointer to the driver's private structure. yes, private, as in her personal diary, as in the driver keeps all its business in there 🫶

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💀 RETURN 💀

• 0 on success 🎉 slay, it worked, we're so back
• negative error codes on failure 😭 something went wrong, and no, she will not elaborate further, the negative number is the message

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

first up, the source file she lives in, no cap:

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c

and now the whole friend group, the entire group chat, everybody she's associated with 💜:

• rsi_is_cipher_wep(9)
• rsi_register_rates_channels(9)
• rsi_mac80211_detach(9)
• rsi_mac80211_rfkill_exit(9)
• rsi_indicate_tx_status(9)
• rsi_mac80211_tx(9)
• rsi_mac80211_start(9)
• rsi_mac80211_stop(9)
• rsi_mac80211_add_interface(9)
• rsi_mac80211_remove_interface(9)
• rsi_channel_change(9)
• rsi_config_power(9)
• rsi_mac80211_config(9)
• rsi_get_connected_channel(9)
• rsi_mac80211_bss_info_changed(9)
• rsi_mac80211_conf_filter(9)
• rsi_mac80211_conf_tx(9)
• rsi_hal_key_config(9)
• rsi_mac80211_set_key(9)
• rsi_mac80211_ampdu_action(9)
• rsi_mac80211_set_rts_threshold(9)
• rsi_mac80211_set_rate_mask(9)
• rsi_perform_cqm(9)
• rsi_fill_rx_status(9)
• rsi_indicate_pkt_to_os(9)
• rsi_mac80211_sta_add(9)
• rsi_mac80211_sta_remove(9)
• rsi_mac80211_set_antenna(9)
• rsi_mac80211_get_antenna(9)

like, the whole roster. go read them, iykyk 📚✨

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ok that's the whole page bestie, no skipped sections, no missing refs, we ate and left absolutely no crumbs 🍓

and for the cute sign-off: this little masterpiece lives under ./drivers/net/wireless/rsi, dated October 2026, and it's brought to you by the rsi_mac80211_attach(9) girlies 💅🎀 see u in the source, mwah 💖