wiphy_free(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

wiphy_free — bestie, this is the one that frees a wiphy 🦋

Like, that's literally it. It's giving "short king of a function that does exactly what its name says" ✨ (you're reading the wiphy_free(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, iykyk 🎀)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void wiphy_free (struct wiphy *wiphy );

okay so the vibe check on this signature: it returns void (nothing back, no notes 💅), it's called wiphy_free, and it takes exactly one thing — a struct wiphy *. That's the whole mood. No cap. 👑

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • wiphy — the wiphy to free 🌸 like, hand it over and it's gone, that's the entire job description, and honestly? iconic. The way that this is the only argument and it's spelled out so plainly is highkey a serve 😭💜

that's part one down, bestie — stay tuned, more of this page is coming 💖✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay bestie, deep breath 💖 this is the part where the page just unloads the entire cfg80211 extended universe on you. every single cross-reference, no skips. we're not scrolling past a single one, because they're all lowkey relevant. here we go 🫶

okay that was the capabilities group, we ate 💅 next up: the configuration era.

  • Actions and configuration(9), struct vif_params(9), struct key_params(9), struct cfg80211_chan_def(9), struct cfg80211_tid_cfg(9), struct cfg80211_tid_config(9), struct cfg80211_fils_aad(9), struct cfg80211_set_hw_timestamp(9), cfg80211_get_chandef_type(9), cfg80211_chandef_create(9)
  • cfg80211_chandef_identical(9), cfg80211_chandef_is_edmg(9), cfg80211_chandef_is_s1g(9), cfg80211_chandef_compatible(9), nl80211_chan_width_to_mhz(9), cfg80211_chandef_get_width(9), cfg80211_chandef_valid(9), cfg80211_chandef_usable(9), cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required(9), cfg80211_chandef_dfs_usable(9)
  • cfg80211_chandef_dfs_cac_time(9), cfg80211_chandef_primary(9), cfg80211_chandef_npca_valid(9), cfg80211_chandef_add_npca(9), cfg80211_chandef_add_dbe(9), nl80211_send_chandef(9), ieee80211_chandef_max_power(9), cfg80211_chandef_s1g_pri_width(9), cfg80211_any_usable_channels(9), enum survey_info_flags(9)
  • struct survey_info(9), struct cfg80211_crypto_settings(9), struct cfg80211_mbssid_config(9), struct cfg80211_mbssid_elems(9), struct cfg80211_rnr_elems(9), struct cfg80211_beacon_data(9), struct cfg80211_acl_data(9), struct cfg80211_fils_discovery(9), struct cfg80211_unsol_bcast_probe_resp(9), struct cfg80211_s1g_short_beacon(9)
  • struct cfg80211_ap_settings(9), struct cfg80211_ap_update(9), struct cfg80211_csa_settings(9), struct cfg80211_color_change_settings(9), struct iface_combination_params(9), enum station_parameters_apply_mask(9), struct sta_txpwr(9), struct link_station_parameters(9), struct link_station_del_parameters(9), struct cfg80211_ttlm_params(9)
  • struct station_parameters(9), struct station_del_parameters(9), enum cfg80211_station_type(9), cfg80211_check_station_change(9), enum rate_info_flags(9), enum rate_info_bw(9), struct rate_info(9), enum bss_param_flags(9), struct sta_bss_parameters(9), struct cfg80211_txq_stats(9)
  • struct cfg80211_tid_stats(9), struct link_station_info(9), struct station_info(9), struct cfg80211_sar_sub_specs(9), struct cfg80211_sar_specs(9), struct cfg80211_sar_freq_ranges(9), struct cfg80211_sar_capa(9), cfg80211_get_station(9), enum monitor_flags(9), enum mpath_info_flags(9)
  • struct mpath_info(9), enum wiphy_bss_param_flags(9), struct bss_parameters(9), struct mesh_config(9), struct mesh_setup(9), struct ocb_setup(9), struct ieee80211_txq_params(9), Scanning and BSS list handling(9), struct cfg80211_ssid(9), struct cfg80211_scan_info(9)
  • struct cfg80211_scan_6ghz_params(9), struct cfg80211_scan_request(9), struct cfg80211_match_set(9), struct cfg80211_sched_scan_plan(9), struct cfg80211_bss_select_adjust(9), struct cfg80211_sched_scan_request(9), enum cfg80211_signal_type(9), struct cfg80211_inform_bss(9), struct cfg80211_bss_ies(9), struct cfg80211_bss(9)
  • ieee80211_bss_get_elem(9), ieee80211_bss_get_ie(9), struct cfg80211_auth_request(9), struct cfg80211_assoc_link(9), struct cfg80211_ml_reconf_req(9), enum cfg80211_assoc_req_flags(9), struct cfg80211_assoc_request(9), struct cfg80211_deauth_request(9), struct cfg80211_disassoc_request(9), struct cfg80211_ibss_params(9)
  • struct cfg80211_bss_selection(9), struct cfg80211_connect_params(9), enum cfg80211_connect_params_changed(9), enum wiphy_params_flags(9), struct cfg80211_pmksa(9), struct cfg80211_pkt_pattern(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_tcp(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan(9), struct cfg80211_coalesce_rules(9), struct cfg80211_coalesce(9)
  • struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_match(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_info(9), struct cfg80211_wowlan_wakeup(9), struct cfg80211_gtk_rekey_data(9), struct cfg80211_update_ft_ies_params(9), struct cfg80211_mgmt_tx_params(9), struct cfg80211_dscp_exception(9), struct cfg80211_dscp_range(9), struct cfg80211_qos_map(9), Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN)(9)

the NAN chapter has arrived, pls respect her 🌸

  • struct cfg80211_nan_band_config(9), struct cfg80211_nan_conf(9), struct cfg80211_nan_channel(9), struct cfg80211_nan_local_sched(9), struct cfg80211_nan_peer_map(9), struct cfg80211_nan_peer_sched(9), enum cfg80211_nan_conf_changes(9), struct cfg80211_nan_func_filter(9), struct cfg80211_nan_func(9), struct cfg80211_pmk_conf(9)
  • struct cfg80211_external_auth_params(9), struct cfg80211_ftm_responder_stats(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_ftm_result(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_result(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_ftm_request_peer(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_request_peer(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_request(9), struct cfg80211_update_owe_info(9), struct mgmt_frame_regs(9), struct cfg80211_ops(9)
  • enum wiphy_flags(9), struct ieee80211_iface_limit(9), struct ieee80211_iface_combination(9), enum wiphy_wowlan_support_flags(9), struct wiphy_wowlan_support(9), struct wiphy_coalesce_support(9), enum wiphy_vendor_command_flags(9), enum wiphy_opmode_flag(9), struct sta_opmode_info(9), struct wiphy_vendor_command(9)
  • struct wiphy_iftype_ext_capab(9), cfg80211_get_iftype_ext_capa(9), struct cfg80211_pmsr_capabilities(9), struct wiphy_iftype_akm_suites(9), struct wiphy_radio_cfg(9), struct wiphy_radio_freq_range(9), struct wiphy_radio(9), enum wiphy_nan_flags(9), struct wiphy_nan_capa(9), struct wiphy(9)

and now the wiphy lifecycle girlies, main character energy only 👑

and that's genuinely the whole list, no crumbs left behind 🧚 every single (9) accounted for, periodt.

Okay so the SEE ALSO list is still going — this page is basically a group chat of its own 💀 — but here's the rest, all of it, in order, no skipping:

Still with me? Good, because there's more 🫶

And that's the whole list, bestie — every single one of those cross-references, present and accounted for, no cap ✨ Honestly the way this page just keeps handing you more siblings to read? It's giving "the friend who introduces you to their entire friend group in one night" 😭 iconic behaviour, honestly, and every one of them is a real page you can go open if your brain still has room.

Sign-off time 🎀 So this whole page lives out of the ./include/net directory in the source tree, it's dated October 2026, and it's filed under the name wiphy_free(9) — that's the one you came here for, and now you know it and its sixty-plus mutuals 💅 Go free that wiphy, bestie, and drink some water. 💖

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