STRUCT IWL_MISSED_BEACONS_NOTIF_V4(9)

🌸 struct iwl_missed_beacons_notif_v4(9) 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

struct iwl_missed_beacons_notif_v4 — the tea on missed beacons (aka MISSED_BEACONS_NOTIFICATION = 0xa2) 💅

So like, this struct is literally the notification that tells you which beacons your card did not hear. It's giving "sorry bestie I ghosted those beacons" energy 😭

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct iwl_missed_beacons_notif_v4 {
    __le32 link_id;
    __le32 consec_missed_beacons_since_last_rx;
    __le32 consec_missed_beacons;
    __le32 num_expected_beacons;
    __le32 num_recvd_beacons;
 };

five __le32 fields, all cute and little-endian, no cap ✨

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🎀 Members 🎀

• link_id — the fw link ID. that's the firmware's little name tag for which link we're talking about 🏷️
• consec_missed_beacons_since_last_rx — number of consecutive missed beacons since last RX. like, how many did we ignore since we last actually heard something 👀
• consec_missed_beacons — number of consecutive missed beacons. straight up. how many in a row we ghosted 💀
• num_expected_beacons — number of expected beacons. what we were supposed to get 🎯
• num_recvd_beacons — number of received beacons. what we actually got, bestie 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

all the siblings and neighbors, keep scrolling iykyk 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/mac.h, plus:

• enum iwl_mac_protection_flags(9)
• enum iwl_mac_types(9)
• enum iwl_tsf_id(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_ap(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_ibss(9)
• enum iwl_mac_data_policy(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_sta(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_go(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_p2p_sta(9)
• struct iwl_mac_data_pibss(9)
• enum iwl_mac_filter_flags(9)
• enum iwl_mac_qos_flags(9)
• struct iwl_ac_qos(9)
• struct iwl_mac_ctx_cmd(9)
• struct iwl_missed_beacons_notif_ver_3(9)
• struct iwl_he_backoff_conf(9)
• enum iwl_he_pkt_ext_constellations(9)
• struct iwl_he_pkt_ext_v1(9)
• struct iwl_he_pkt_ext_v2(9)
• enum iwl_he_sta_ctxt_flags(9)
• enum iwl_he_htc_flags(9)
• struct iwl_he_sta_context_cmd_v1(9)
• struct iwl_he_sta_context_cmd_v2(9)
• struct iwl_he_sta_context_cmd_v3(9)
• struct iwl_he_monitor_cmd(9)

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ngl the whole beacon saga lives in ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i... — that's the path, we're not shortening the vibe, just the page footer did it first 😌

and that's the page, bestie!! 🧚 this one's stamped October 2026, source ./drivers/net/wireless/intel/i..., and the footer keeps the classic struct iwl_m...ons_notif_v4(9) — slay, periodt, go read a real beacon notification 💖