batadv_bla_init(9)

✨ batadv_bla_init(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for batadv_bla_init(9) and it's literally the glow-up ritual for BLA 🎀 (bridge loop avoidance, iykyk). It sets up all the bla structures. All of them. Every single one. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_bla_init — initialize all bla structures 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int batadv_bla_init (struct batadv_priv *bat_priv );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• bat_priv — the bat priv with all the mesh interface information. yes that's the whole thing, it's the main-character struct holding all your mesh-interface deets 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, < 0 on error. that's it, that's the vibe check 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is LONG, so strap in bestie — every one of these is a real one, no cap:

• Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
• batadv_choose_claim(9)
• batadv_choose_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_compare_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_compare_claim(9)
• batadv_backbone_gw_release(9)
• batadv_backbone_gw_put(9)
• batadv_claim_release(9)
• batadv_claim_put(9)
• batadv_claim_hash_find(9)
• batadv_backbone_hash_find(9)
• batadv_bla_del_backbone_claims(9)
• batadv_bla_send_claim(9)
• batadv_bla_loopdetect_report(9)
• batadv_bla_get_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_bla_update_own_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_bla_answer_request(9)
• batadv_bla_send_request(9)
• batadv_bla_send_announce(9)
• batadv_bla_add_claim(9)
• batadv_bla_claim_get_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_bla_del_claim(9)
• batadv_handle_announce(9)
• batadv_handle_request(9)
• batadv_handle_unclaim(9)
• batadv_handle_claim(9)
• batadv_check_claim_group(9)
• batadv_bla_process_claim(9)
• batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_bla_purge_claims(9)
• batadv_bla_update_orig_address(9)
• batadv_bla_send_loopdetect(9)
• batadv_bla_status_update(9)
• batadv_bla_periodic_work(9)
• batadv_bla_check_duplist(9)
• batadv_bla_check_ucast_duplist(9)
• batadv_bla_check_bcast_duplist(9)
• batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw_orig(9)
• batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw(9)
• batadv_bla_free(9)
• batadv_bla_loopdetect_check(9)
• batadv_bla_rx(9)
• batadv_bla_tx(9)
• batadv_bla_claim_dump_entry(9)
• batadv_bla_claim_dump_bucket(9)
• batadv_bla_claim_dump(9)
• batadv_bla_backbone_dump_entry(9)
• batadv_bla_backbone_dump_bucket(9)
• batadv_bla_backbone_dump(9)
• batadv_bla_check_claim(9)

🫶 and that's the whole page, bestie. sign-off time: this one lives in ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026 — iconic, timeless, periodt 💜🌸