wiphy_priv(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 wiphy_priv — wiphy_priv(9), Kernel API Manual

okay bestie, welcome to the <rainbow>Kernel API Manual</rainbow> ✨ today we're looking at section 9, wiphy_priv(9) — and ngl, this one is short and sweet. Baby page. Snack-sized. But it's still lowkey iconic so let's give it the respect it deserves 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

wiphy_priv — return priv from wiphy

Like. That's the whole name section. It returns the priv, from the wiphy. The way that it literally just says what it does? main character energy 💚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * wiphy_priv (struct wiphy *wiphy );

Obsessed with how tidy this is 🎀 one function, one argument, one pointer coming back at you. Copy it exactly if you're typing it out, spacing and all, because we do not freestyle in the synopsis. periodt.

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • wiphy — the wiphy whose priv pointer to return. yes that's the actual job description. you hand it a wiphy, it gives you back that wiphy's priv pointer. match made in heaven 💜

🎀 RETURN 🎀

The priv of wiphy. 💫

That's it. That's the return value. No twist, no secret second thing, no "unless" clause hiding at the bottom. It's giving simple, clean, unbothered. 🙈

bestie reminder: the return type is void * — so whatever comes back is untyped, and the signature is literally printed up there in the SYNOPSIS. don't come for me about casting, the page doesn't say a single word about it and neither will I 😭

okay that's the whole core of this one — keep reading, the next part is coming right up 👑

🗂️ the file this whole saga lives in

  • Kernel file ./include/net/cfg80211.h — bestie this is the header, the mothership, the main character 💅 everything below lives here
  • Introduction(9)
  • Device registration(9)

🦋 bands, rates & caps (the "can my radio even" section)

⚙️ Actions and configuration — the whole toolkit

📡 beacons, AP settings & station params — the whole cast

  • 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 — the gossip-gathering era

  • 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) — literally the social network

  • Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN)(9)
  • 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)

👑 ops & wiphy capabilities — the driver contract

  • 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 & friends — the lifecycle glow-up

🧚 Utility functions — the little helpers that ate

🍓 Data path helpers — packets doing their thing

🌈 Regulatory enforcement infrastructure — the rules era

📶 scan done / BSS notify era

🛰️ RFkill integration, Vendor commands & Test mode

🫶 the connect / roam / notify besties (the whole group chat)

okay so the reference list keeps going, bestie — grab a snack, we're almost at the end of the cross-reference era 🍓

and that's a wrap on the whole page!! 🌈 this one lives in the kernel source tree under ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it's section wiphy_priv(9) — go forth and man responsibly, you absolute legend 💖✨

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