batadv_bla_send_request(9)

💅 batadv_bla_send_request(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

Okay so picture this: it's giving kernel-docs-but-make-it-cute. This is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and the whole vibe is "the bridge loop avoidance girlies are having a sync issue and we're gonna fix it." Let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_bla_send_request — send a request to repeat claims 🔁

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void batadv_bla_send_request (struct batadv_bla_backbone_gw *backbone_gw
);

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• backbone_gw — the backbone gateway from whom we are out of sync 😭 like genuinely, this is the one we've lost touch with

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕: when the crc is wrong, we slide into the backbone gateway's DMs and ask for a full table update. No cap, that's the whole move.

After the request goes out, it will repeat all of his own claims 💅 and finally send an announcement claim with which we can check again. Iconic behaviour, honestly. Main character energy from start to finish. 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Bestie, the cross-references are deep — here's the whole friend group 🫶

Kernel file

• ./net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c

The functions

• 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_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)

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Okay that's the whole page, mwah 💖 This little icon lives in ./net/batman-adv and the source/version line says October 2026 — so yes, she's from the future and she's still out here asking backbone gateways to repeat their claims. Obsessed. 🦋✨🎀