batadv_dat_status_update(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

batadv_dat_status_update — bestie it literally does one job: it updates the dat tvlv container after a dat setting change ✨

and yes we are in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, kernel-function territory, no cap 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void batadv_dat_status_update (struct net_device *net_dev );

it's giving void, so like… nothing comes back. no return value, no drama, just vibes and a side effect 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• net_dev — the mesh interface net device 👑

that's the whole list. one (1) argument. main character energy 💀

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

okay so this is the part where the page just absolutely unloads the entire friend group on you, and honestly? iconic. first up, the kernel file where all this lives:

• ./net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c

and now the whole squad, in order, don't skip anybody 🧚:

• enum batadv_bootpop(9)
• enum batadv_boothtype(9)
• enum batadv_dhcpoptioncode(9)
• enum batadv_dhcptype(9)
• struct batadv_dhcp_packet(9)
• struct batadv_dhcp_header(9)
• struct batadv_dhcp_option_header(9)
• batadv_dat_start_timer(9)
• batadv_dat_entry_release(9)
• batadv_dat_entry_put(9)
• batadv_dat_to_purge(9)
• __batadv_dat_purge(9)
• batadv_dat_purge(9)
• batadv_compare_dat(9)
• batadv_arp_hw_src(9)
• batadv_arp_ip_src(9)
• batadv_arp_hw_dst(9)
• batadv_arp_ip_dst(9)
• batadv_hash_dat(9)
• batadv_dat_entry_hash_find(9)
• batadv_dat_entry_add(9)
• batadv_dbg_arp(9)
• batadv_is_orig_node_eligible(9)
• batadv_choose_next_candidate(9)
• batadv_dat_select_candidates(9)
• batadv_dat_forward_data(9)
• batadv_dat_tvlv_container_update(9)
• batadv_dat_tvlv_ogm_handler_v1(9)
• batadv_dat_hash_free(9)
• batadv_dat_init(9)
• batadv_dat_free(9)
• batadv_dat_cache_dump_entry(9)
• batadv_dat_cache_dump_bucket(9)
• batadv_dat_cache_dump(9)
• batadv_arp_get_type(9)
• batadv_dat_get_vid(9)
• batadv_dat_arp_create_reply(9)
• batadv_dat_snoop_outgoing_arp_request(9)
• batadv_dat_snoop_incoming_arp_request(9)
• batadv_dat_snoop_outgoing_arp_reply(9)
• batadv_dat_snoop_incoming_arp_reply(9)
• batadv_dat_check_dhcp_ipudp(9)
• batadv_dat_check_dhcp(9)
• batadv_dat_get_dhcp_message_type(9)
• batadv_dat_dhcp_get_yiaddr(9)
• batadv_dat_get_dhcp_chaddr(9)
• batadv_dat_put_dhcp(9)
• batadv_dat_check_dhcp_ack(9)
• batadv_dat_snoop_outgoing_dhcp_ack(9)
• batadv_dat_snoop_incoming_dhcp_ack(9)
• batadv_dat_drop_broadcast_packet(9)

like… that's the whole contact list fr fr 😭

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no warnings on this one bestie, it's a chill little function — but you still gotta know your way around the mesh interface net device before you poke at it 💅

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mwah, that's the page 🎀 it ships out of ./net/batman-adv and it's dated October 2026, so go forth and update that container, queen 👑💖