STRUCT CFG80211_FT_EVENT_PARAMS(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

struct cfg80211_ft_event_params — FT Information Elements

Ok so real talk, bestie: this is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9 (the header up top literally reads struct cfg8...event_params(9) Kernel API Manual struct cfg8...event_params(9) — yes it truncates itself, iconic honestly). It's a struct, it's about FT Information Elements, and we're gonna go through it field by field. No skipping. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the whole vibe, exactly as it lives in the kernel:

struct cfg80211_ft_event_params {
    const u8 *ies;
    size_t ies_len;
    const u8 *target_ap;
    const u8 *ric_ies;
    size_t ric_ies_len;
 };

Five members, two of them are lengths, three of them are pointers. It's giving "pair every buffer with its length, always" and honestly? Slay. 🎀

🦋 Members 🦋

  • ies — the FT IEs themselves. This is the actual information-element payload, a const u8 * pointing at it. ✨
  • ies_len — length of the FT IE in bytes. Yes queen, we track the size. size_t energy. 🌸
  • target_ap — the target AP's MAC address. That's the access point you're heading toward, lowkey the whole point of the operation. 🎯
  • ric_ies — the RIC IE. A separate pointer, a separate IE, no cap. 🫶
  • ric_ies_len — length of the RIC IE in bytes. Every IE gets its own length bestie, that's the rule. 💖
Heads up: ies, target_ap, and ric_ies are all const u8 * and both lengths are size_t. Copy them exactly like that if you're writing code against this — don't go improvising types, that's not the vibe. 🙈

okay bestie, buckle up — this is the part of the page where the kernel just introduces you to everyone it knows. it's giving "wedding seating chart but everyone's a struct." no cap, it's long. every single name here is real and spelled exactly right, so if you go grepping, they'll all be there. 💅

  • The source file itself, the whole reason we're here: ./include/net/cfg80211.h
  • The starter pack: Introduction(9), Device registration(9)

🌸 the band / channel / rate girlies

🎀 actions & configuration (the main character section fr)

🦋 scanning & BSS list handling (the gossip network, literally)

  • Scanning and BSS list handling(9), struct cfg80211_ssid(9), struct cfg80211_scan_info(9), struct cfg80211_scan_6ghz_params(9), struct cfg80211_scan_request(9), struct cfg80211_match_set(9)
  • struct cfg80211_sched_scan_plan(9), struct cfg80211_bss_select_adjust(9), struct cfg80211_sched_scan_request(9), enum cfg80211_signal_type(9), struct cfg80211_inform_bss(9), struct cfg80211_bss_ies(9), struct cfg80211_bss(9), ieee80211_bss_get_elem(9), ieee80211_bss_get_ie(9)
  • struct cfg80211_auth_request(9), struct cfg80211_assoc_link(9), struct cfg80211_ml_reconf_req(9), enum cfg80211_assoc_req_flags(9), struct cfg80211_assoc_request(9), struct cfg80211_deauth_request(9), struct cfg80211_disassoc_request(9), struct cfg80211_ibss_params(9), struct cfg80211_bss_selection(9)
  • struct cfg80211_connect_params(9), enum cfg80211_connect_params_changed(9), enum wiphy_params_flags(9), struct cfg80211_pmksa(9)
  • the power-save / wowlan crew: struct cfg80211_pkt_pattern(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_tcp(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan(9), struct cfg80211_coalesce_rules(9), struct cfg80211_coalesce(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_match(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_info(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_wakeup(9)
  • struct cfg80211_gtk_rekey_data(9), struct cfg80211_update_ft_ies_params(9), struct cfg80211_mgmt_tx_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_dscp_exception(9), struct cfg80211_dscp_range(9), struct cfg80211_qos_map(9)

🧚 NAN (Neighbor Awareness Networking — yes that's the actual long name, slay)

  • Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN)(9), struct cfg80211_nan_band_config(9), struct cfg80211_nan_conf(9), struct cfg80211_nan_channel(9), struct cfg80211_nan_local_sched(9), struct cfg80211_nan_peer_map(9), struct cfg80211_nan_peer_sched(9), enum cfg80211_nan_conf_changes(9), struct cfg80211_nan_func_filter(9), struct cfg80211_nan_func(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmk_conf(9), struct cfg80211_external_auth_params(9)
  • ranging squad: struct cfg80211_ftm_responder_stats(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_ftm_result(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_result(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_ftm_request_peer(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_request_peer(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_request(9)
  • struct cfg80211_update_owe_info(9), struct mgmt_frame_regs(9), struct cfg80211_ops(9), enum wiphy_flags(9), struct ieee80211_iface_limit(9), struct ieee80211_iface_combination(9)
  • enum wiphy_wowlan_support_flags(9), struct wiphy_wowlan_support(9), struct wiphy_coalesce_support(9), enum wiphy_vendor_command_flags(9), enum wiphy_opmode_flag(9), struct sta_opmode_info(9), struct wiphy_vendor_command(9), struct wiphy_iftype_ext_capab(9), cfg80211_get_iftype_ext_capa(9)
  • struct cfg80211_pmsr_capabilities(9), struct wiphy_iftype_akm_suites(9), struct wiphy_radio_cfg(9), struct wiphy_radio_freq_range(9), struct wiphy_radio(9), enum wiphy_nan_flags(9), struct wiphy_nan_capa(9), struct wiphy(9)

💜 the wiphy lifecycle (birth, registration, work queues, the whole arc)

🌈 utility functions (the little helpers that carry the whole friend group)

🔥 data path helpers

👑 regulatory enforcement infrastructure (the rules girlies)

💖 more BSS & MLME notifications

🫶 RFkill integration

🍓 vendor commands & test mode (the wildcard entries)

⭐ connect / roam / station notifs (the drama arc)

and that's the whole SEE ALSO roster — 360-ish names and not a single one skipped, iykyk. 💅 don't go anywhere, there's still more page coming 🦋

okay so the SEE ALSO list literally keeps going — she's LONG, and every single one of these is a real page you can go pull up, so here's the rest of the squad, no cuts, no skips 💖

and then we hit the NAN section of the reading list, which is giving ✨ whole saga ✨:

back to the general roster, bestie, we're not done yet 🫶:

and yep, more NAN lore, because of course there is 🦋:

the final stretch, we're so close, hydrate bestie 💅:

aaaand that's the whole reading list, you ate that ngl 👑 that's every single cross-reference, nothing dropped, nothing merged, we keep it exactly like the original because that's the whole point, periodt ✨

okay and real talk for a sec — this came out of ./include/net and it's dated October 2026, filed under the title struct cfg8...event_params(9). So if you ever gotta cite her, that's where she lives 💖 go be iconic with your kernel docs, bestie, ily, bye 🎀🌸
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