batadv_gw_select(9)

💅 NAME 💅

batadv_gw_select — bestie, this is the one that picks a brand-new currently active gateway ✨

So yeah, we're in the batadv_gw_select(9) page of the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? It's giving main character energy 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void batadv_gw_select (struct batadv_priv *bat_priv , struct
batadv_gw_node *new_gw_node );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• bat_priv — the bat priv that's holding all the mesh interface information, like it's carrying everyone's bags fr fr 👜
• new_gw_node — the gateway node you're crowning as the current gateway 👑 and yes, it may be NULL — that's allowed, no cap

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe: this function atomically replaces the currently active gateway with new_gw_node, and then it drops the reference to the previous one. Swapsies, but make it atomic 💫 No messy half-states, no weird in-between era — one second it's the old gateway, next second it's the new one, periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

• batadv_gw_node_release(9)
• batadv_gw_get_selected_gw_node(9)
• batadv_gw_get_selected_orig(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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🫶 That's the whole page, bestie — go forth and select your gateway. Slay 💅

Signed off with love from ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026 🌈⭐ (yes the version/date is a whole aesthetic, don't @ me)