batadv_gw_ge...cted_gw_node(9)

💅 batadv_gw_ge...cted_gw_node(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the group chat 😌 you're looking at the kernel API manual page for batadv_gw_ge...cted_gw_node(9) (yes the title is truncated with dots, that's just how the man page renders it, we don't make the rules). anyways, buckle in 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_gw_get_selected_gw_node — Get currently selected gateway. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it gets you the gateway. the currently selected one. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct batadv_gw_node * batadv_gw_get_selected_gw_node (struct
batadv_priv *bat_priv );

like literally just hand it the bat_priv and it hands you back a pointer, periodt 💖

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• bat_priv — the bat priv with all the mesh interface information. yes, all of it. every last crumb of mesh interface info lives in there 🫶

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• the selected gateway (with increased refcnt) 👑 — and pls pls pls note the refcnt got bumped, so that reference is yours now, no cap
• NULL on errors 😭 — because sometimes the universe says no

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c, plus the whole friend group:

• batadv_gw_node_release(9)
• batadv_gw_get_selected_orig(9)
• batadv_gw_select(9)
• batadv_gw_reselect(9)
• batadv_gw_check_client_stop(9)
• batadv_gw_election(9)
• batadv_gw_check_election(9)
• batadv_gw_node_add(9)
• batadv_gw_node_get(9)
• batadv_gw_node_update(9)
• batadv_gw_node_delete(9)
• batadv_gw_node_free(9)
• batadv_gw_dump(9)
• batadv_gw_dhcp_recipient_get(9)
• batadv_gw_out_of_range(9)

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anyway that's the whole page, you ate that read bestie 💜 this came out of the kernel file at ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and it's filed under the manual name batadv_gw_ge...cted_gw_node(9) — so if you ever need to find it again, iykyk 🎀✨🌸