wdev_to_ieee80211_vif(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 wdev_to_ieee80211_vif — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so real talk, this one is a tiny little helper from the Kernel API Manual and it's genuinely so simple bestie, like three lines of lore and then a massive friend group in SEE ALSO. let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

wdev_to_ieee80211_vif — return a vif struct from a wdev

like. it takes the wdev. it gives you the vif. matcha. 🍵

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct ieee80211_vif * wdev_to_ieee80211_vif (struct wireless_dev *wdev
);

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • wdev — the wdev to get the vif for. that's the whole argument. that's it. one (1) singular wdev. she's low maintenance 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this is the function mac80211 drivers reach for when they're using the direct cfg80211 APIs — think vendor commands, iykyk — and what they get handed is a wdev. no cap, that's the whole use case. it's giving "middle of the group chat, someone tosses you a wdev, you need the vif."

👑 RETURN 👑

you get back a pointer to the wdev, or NULL if the wdev you passed in isn't associated with a vif that the driver knows about — for example monitor or AP_VLAN interfaces. 🙈

ngl bestie, NULL is not an error here, it's just the function telling you "girl this one isn't yours." always check before you dereference, fr fr 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this is the part where the page just. lists everyone. the entire extended universe. the whole group chat, the whole family reunion, the whole roster 👑

first up, the source of truth:

  • Kernel file ./include/net/mac80211.h

and then literally everyone else:

like. that's the whole cast. every single one showed up to the party and honestly? respect 🫶

and that's the page bestie!! 🧚 she's smol, she's iconic, she returns NULL sometimes and that's valid.

mwah 💖 — sourced from the kernel file ./include/net, dated October 2026, and yes the page is still called wdev_to_ieee80211_vif(9), we did not rename her, she's been through enough 🎀

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