batadv_bla_send_claim(9)

💅 batadv_bla_send_claim(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes we're in that part of the kernel today, the batman-adv bridge-loop-avoidance zone 🦇🌈 and honestly? iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

batadv_bla_send_claim — literally just sends a claim frame according to the provided info 💌 no cap, that's the whole gig.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void batadv_bla_send_claim (struct batadv_priv *bat_priv , const u8 *mac
, unsigned short vid , int claimtype );

like, look at her. four params, zero return value, main character energy 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• bat_priv — the bat priv with all the mesh interface information 🫶 this is the whole mesh-interface-info situation, everything you need lives in here.
• mac — the mac address to be announced within the claim 📢 it's a const u8 *, so don't even think about touching it, bestie.
• vid — the VLAN ID 🏷️ it's an unsigned short, and yes it's exactly what it sounds like.
• claimtype — the type of the claim (CLAIM, UNCLAIM, ANNOUNCE, ...) 🔥 that ... is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but those are the ones the manpage names, so those are the ones we're naming. fr fr.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay this is the part where I hold up the entire friend group and introduce every single one of them, and there are so many, but they all deserve it 💅:

• Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c 🌸 (the mothership, the home base, the bridge_loop_avoidance.c of it all)
• 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_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_init(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)

like... that's the whole squad 😭 every single one accounted for, nobody left behind, we love a complete roster 🫶

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🌸💖 that's the page, bestie 💖🌸

Source: ./net/batman-adv · dated October 2026 · and it's still batadv_bla_send_claim(9) — slay, go send those claim frames responsibly ✨👑💅