batadv_hard_if_event_meshif(9)

💅 batadv_hard_if_event_meshif(9) — the mesh-interface event handler bestie

okay so real talk, this is a page from the kernel API manual, aka the batman-adv docs, and we're talking about batadv_hard_if_event_meshif(9). Yes it's a mouthful, yes you'll get it, i believe in you 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

batadv_hard_if_event_meshif — it handles events for mesh interfaces. that's it, that's the vibe. when a mesh interface has Something Happen To It, this is the function that shows up to deal with it 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int batadv_hard_if_event_meshif (unsigned long event , struct net_device *net_dev );

like, two things go in, an int comes out. main character energy fr 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• event — the NETDEV_* event that needs handling. yes, the * is doing a lot of work there, it's a whole family of events and this is whichever one just happened ✨
• net_dev — the net_device that generated the event. the little guy who caused all this drama 😭

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

it gives you back a NOTIFY_* result. no cap, that's the whole return story 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay bestie, buckle up, because this list is long — it's giving "the whole friend group showed up to the function." these are all in the kernel file ./net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c, and every single one of them is a (9) page:

• batadv_hardif_release(9)
• batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(9)
• batadv_getlink_net(9)
• batadv_mutual_parents(9)
• batadv_is_on_batman_iface(9)
• batadv_is_valid_iface(9)
• __batadv_get_real_netdev(9) — note the double underscore, she's the private one 🤫
• batadv_get_real_netdev(9)
• batadv_is_wext_netdev(9)
• batadv_is_cfg80211_netdev(9)
• batadv_wifi_flags_evaluate(9)
• batadv_netdev_get_wifi_flags(9)
• batadv_hardif_get_wifi_flags(9)
• batadv_is_wifi_hardif(9)
• batadv_hardif_no_broadcast(9)
• batadv_hardif_get_active(9)
• batadv_primary_if_update_addr(9)
• batadv_primary_if_select(9)
• batadv_hardif_is_iface_up(9)
• batadv_check_known_mac_addr(9)
• batadv_hardif_recalc_extra_skbroom(9)
• batadv_hardif_min_mtu(9)
• batadv_update_min_mtu(9)
• batadv_hardif_activate_interface(9)
• batadv_hardif_deactivate_interface(9)
• batadv_hardif_enable_interface(9)
• batadv_hardif_disable_interface(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_insert(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_remove(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_update(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_unregister(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_event(9)
• batadv_hard_if_event(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_devices_init(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_devices_deinit(9)

like?? that's thirty-five of them?? she knows everyone at this party 👑 iykyk 💀

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a lil heads up: this page comes from ./net/batman-adv and it's dated October 2026. so yes, future-dated docs are a thing and we're just living in it 🧚

anyway that's the whole page, you ate that, go read the other thirty-five now 🍓 bye bestie!! 💜