STRUCT HWSIM_TX_RATE_FLAG(9)

🦋 struct hwsim_tx_rate_flag(9) 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes we're doing kernel docs today and yes it's gonna be cute 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

struct hwsim_tx_rate_flag — literally the whole vibe of rate selection/status ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct hwsim_tx_rate_flag {
    s8 idx;
    u16 flags;
 };

look at her. two fields. tiny. iconic. 👑

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🫶 Members 🫶

• idx — the rate index you're attempting to send with, no cap 💫
• flags — the rate flags, and they follow enum hwsim_tx_rate_flags fr fr

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✨ Description ✨

So here's the tea 🍓: a value of -1 for idx means the rate is invalid — and if you're using it inside an array of retry rates, that also means no more rates should be tried. like, that's it, we're done, stop trying 😭

When it's used for transmit status reporting, the driver should always report the rate and the number of retries used. always. not sometimes. always 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.h
• enum hwsim_tx_control_flags(9)
• Frame transmission/registration support(9)
• enum hwsim_commands(9)
• enum hwsim_attrs(9)
• struct hwsim_tx_rate(9)
• enum hwsim_tx_rate_flags(9)
• Frame transmission support over virtio(9)
• enum hwsim_vqs(9)
• enum hwsim_rate_info_attributes(9)

go read them all, i'll wait 🧚💜

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mwah 💖 that's the whole page! sourced straight from ./drivers/net/wireless/virtual, dated October 2026, and this was struct hwsim_tx_rate_flag(9) — slay, bye bestie! 🎀🔥