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  BSS description
 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">
struct cfg80211_bss {
  struct ieee80211_channel * channel;
  const struct cfg80211_bss_ies __rcu * ies;
  const struct cfg80211_bss_ies __rcu * beacon_ies;
  const struct cfg80211_bss_ies __rcu * proberesp_ies;
  struct cfg80211_bss * hidden_beacon_bss;
  s32 signal;
  u16 beacon_interval;
  u16 capability;
  u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];
  u8 priv[0];
};  </pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm139754518966560"></a><h2>Members</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">channel</span></dt><dd><p>
channel this BSS is on
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">ies</span></dt><dd><p>
the information elements (Note that there is no guarantee that these
are well-formed!); this is a pointer to either the beacon_ies or
proberesp_ies depending on whether Probe Response frame has been
received. It is always non-<code class="constant">NULL</code>.
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">beacon_ies</span></dt><dd><p>
the information elements from the last Beacon frame
(implementation note: if <em class="parameter"><code>hidden_beacon_bss</code></em> is set this struct doesn't
own the beacon_ies, but they're just pointers to the ones from the
<em class="parameter"><code>hidden_beacon_bss</code></em> struct)
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">proberesp_ies</span></dt><dd><p>
the information elements from the last Probe Response frame
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">hidden_beacon_bss</span></dt><dd><p>
in case this BSS struct represents a probe response from
a BSS that hides the SSID in its beacon, this points to the BSS struct
that holds the beacon data. <em class="parameter"><code>beacon_ies</code></em> is still valid, of course, and
points to the same data as hidden_beacon_bss-&gt;beacon_ies in that case.
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">signal</span></dt><dd><p>
signal strength value (type depends on the wiphy's signal_type)
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">beacon_interval</span></dt><dd><p>
the beacon interval as from the frame
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">capability</span></dt><dd><p>
the capability field in host byte order
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">bssid[ETH_ALEN]</span></dt><dd><p>
BSSID of the BSS
      </p></dd><dt><span class="term">priv[0]</span></dt><dd><p>
private area for driver use, has at least wiphy-&gt;bss_priv_size bytes
      </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm139754518949280"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
   </p><p>

   This structure describes a BSS (which may also be a mesh network)
   for use in scan results and similar.
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