STRUCT STA_BSS_PARAMETERS(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 struct sta_bss_parameters — BSS parameters for the attached station 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and bestie, it's all about struct sta_bss_parameters — literally the BSS parameters for the attached station. the way that kernel networking keeps track of where you're associated?? iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole vibe, character for character, no cap:

struct sta_bss_parameters {
    u8 flags;
    u8 dtim_period;
    u16 beacon_interval;
};

three little fields, and they're all doing main character work. look at those types — two u8s and a u16, lowkey elegant ngl 💅

🌸 Members 🌸

  • flags — a bitflag situation, made out of flags from enum bss_param_flags. so like, it's not one thing, it's a whole little set of flags smooshed into one field. flags of flags, we love a nested moment 🎀
  • dtim_period — the DTIM period for the BSS. that's the whole thing, that's what it is. it's a u8. periodt (dtim periodt, sorry, i had to 😭)
  • beacon_interval — the beacon interval. and yes it's a u16, so it gets more room than its two u8 besties up there. good for it honestly 🌈

🦋 Description 🦋

it's information about the currently associated BSS. that's it, that's the whole deal — this struct is the little info packet about the BSS you're currently associated with. short, sweet, keeps every single one of its facts, and we're obsessed ✨

more parts incoming, don't go anywhere bestie 💜

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay bestie, this see-also section is long — like, “my entire for-you page” long — and every single ref is staying. No cap. The kernel file is ./include/net/cfg80211.h, and then the whole squad rolls in:

okay bestie, we're in the home stretch — this is the rest of the guest list for this man page's SEE ALSO, and it is long long. Like, "my For You page after I liked one (1) Linux video" long. Grab a lil snack, we're going through them all, no skipping, we don't do that here 💅

and that's the whole list, not one skipped, periodt 💜 this page lives in ./include/net, it's dated October 2026, and it's the man page for struct sta_bss_parameters(9) — go forth and read her properly, bestie ✨🎀

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