__mesh_plink_deactivate(9)

🌈 __mesh_plink_deactivate(9) 🌈

okay bestie, you're looking at the __mesh_plink_deactivate(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving deeply specific kernel-internals energy 💅✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

__mesh_plink_deactivate — deactivate mesh peer link

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u64 __mesh_plink_deactivate (struct sta_info *sta );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• sta — the mesh peer link to deactivate, bestie 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Mesh paths with this peer as next hop should be flushed by the caller outside of plink_lock. no cap, that part is on the caller 😌

Locking: the caller must hold sta->mesh->plink_lock 🔒✨

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👑 RETURN 👑

Returns the beacon changed flag if the beacon content changed 🌟

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
• mesh_plink_fsm_restart(9)
• mesh_set_ht_prot_mode(9)
• mesh_plink_deactivate(9)
• mesh_plink_fsm(9)

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mwah 💋 signing off from ./net/mac80211, dated October 2026 — periodt 🫶🎀