STRUCT IEEE80211_MSRMENT_IE(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

struct ieee80211_msrment_ie — the Measurement element, bestie 💅

okay so real quick, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's struct ieee80211_msrment_ie(9) — yes the whole struct gets its own little moment, and honestly? deserved 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct ieee80211_msrment_ie {
    u8 token;
    u8 mode;
    u8 type;
    u8 request[];
};

🫶 Members 🫶

  • token — the Measurement Token 🎟️
  • mode — the Measurement Report Mode 🌈
  • type — the Measurement Type 🔍
  • request — the Measurement Request or Measurement Report 📨

🌸 Description 🌸

So what is this thing? It's the payload 💖 — like, the actual contents — of both the "Measurement Request element" and the "Measurement Report element". Two elements, one struct, main character energy fr fr 👑

And where do those live? IEEE Std 802.11-2020 sections 9.4.2.20 and 9.4.2.21, iykyk 📚✨

no cap, that's the whole description — it's a short page but it ate 💅

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

okay this is the part where the page just lists everyone it knows and honestly it's giving group chat roster 🫶 First up, the kernel file it hangs out in:

./include/linux/ieee80211.h

then the whole squad, no one left out 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 source is ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's filed under struct ieee80211_msrment_ie(9) — go forth and measure those elements 💜🦋

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