batadv_iv_ogm_iface_disable(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 batadv_iv_ogm_iface_disable(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this is the batadv_iv_ogm_iface_disable(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the cleanup arc of your B.A.T.M.A.N. IV interface 🌸. Think of it as the moment the party's over, the lights come up, and somebody has to take out the trash — except the trash is a buffer, and the someone is this function. Periodt.

🦋 NAME 🦋

batadv_iv_ogm_iface_disable — release the B.A.T.M.A.N. IV resources of an interface 💖

No cap, that's the whole glow-up: when an interface is done, this is the function that handles the releasing of its B.A.T.M.A.N. IV stuff.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void batadv_iv_ogm_iface_disable (struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface
);

Yeah it's void — it doesn't hand anything back to you, it just does the thing and dips 🙈.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • hard_iface — the interface which is shutting down 👑

That's it, that's the one (1) argument. She's got a single job, and it's to sprite-clean this specific interface on its way out.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So what's actually happening here? Two things, and they're both lowkey iconic in a "taking responsibility" way:

  • free the per-interface OGM buffer 🧚
  • cancel a possibly pending OGM rescheduling work ⭐

That's the whole vibe. Note the "possibly" — the rescheduling work might not be there at all, and this function still shows up to handle it like the main character she is. Free the buffer, cancel the maybe-pending work, done, no drama, she's not asking for applause (but she deserves it fr fr 💅).

if you're picturing a teenager clearing off her desk before a fresh start, congrats, you get it, iykyk 🌈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group (and yes, we're listing every single one, because nobody gets left behind 🫶):

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 the "shutting down era" is fully documented. this one's from ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and it will forever be known as batadv_iv_ogm_iface_disable(9) — a little legend, a tiny icon, a cleanup queen 👑💖

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