Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml

File Facts

System: Linux kernel
Corpus path: Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml
Extension: .yaml
Size: 39132 bytes
Lines: 1934
Domain: Support Tooling And Documentation
Bucket: Documentation
Inferred role: Support Tooling And Documentation: configuration, schema, or hardware description
Status: atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

# SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)
---
name: nl80211
protocol: genetlink-legacy

doc: >-
  Netlink API for 802.11 wireless devices

definitions:
  -
    name: commands
    type: enum
    entries:
      - unspec
      - get-wiphy
      - set-wiphy
      - new-wiphy
      - del-wiphy
      - get-interface
      - set-interface
      - new-interface
      - del-interface
      - get-key
      - set-key
      - new-key
      - del-key
      - get-beacon
      - set-beacon
      - new-beacon
      - del-beacon
      - get-station
      - set-station
      - new-station
      - del-station
      - get-mpath
      - set-mpath
      - new-mpath
      - del-mpath
      - set-bss
      - set-reg
      - req-set-reg
      - get-mesh-config
      - set-mesh-config
      - set-mgmt-extra-ie
      - get-reg
      - get-scan
      - trigger-scan
      - new-scan-results
      - scan-aborted
      - reg-change
      - authenticate
      - associate
      - deauthenticate
      - disassociate
      - michael-mic-failure
      - reg-beacon-hint
      - join-ibss
      - leave-ibss
      - testmode
      - connect
      - roam
      - disconnect
      - set-wiphy-netns
      - get-survey
      - new-survey-results
      - set-pmksa
      - del-pmksa
      - flush-pmksa
      - remain-on-channel
      - cancel-remain-on-channel

Annotation

Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.