batadv_iv_ogm_orig_dump(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 batadv_iv_ogm_orig_dump(9) — Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so you know how the kernel has a whole pile of manual pages and some of them are like, dry as toast? yeah. this one is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's the glow-up of batadv_iv_ogm_orig_dump — the function in the batman-adv crew that literally dumps the originators into a message. no cap. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

batadv_iv_ogm_orig_dump — Dump the originators into a message 💌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void batadv_iv_ogm_orig_dump (struct sk_buff *msg , struct
       netlink_callback *cb , struct batadv_priv *bat_priv , struct
       batadv_hard_iface *if_outgoing );

it's giving "void function, four arguments, absolutely no return value, main character energy" 👑 note the void bestie — this one is not handing you anything back, it's just doing the thing.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • msg — the Netlink message you're dumping into, aka the little envelope everything gets stuffed inside ✉️
  • cb — the control block, which is carrying all the extra options. think of it as the settings menu that came along for the ride 🧚
  • bat_priv — the bat priv, holding all the mesh interface information. it's literally the whole vibe of the mesh in one struct 💜
  • if_outgoing — limits the dump so you only get entries with this outgoing interface. it's the bouncer at the door, filtering who gets in 🚪✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

so we are not doing this alone, the whole squad shows up. first up, the kernel file this lives in: ./net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c 📁 and then the extended friendship circle:

like, look at that list. it ate. every single one of them is linked with (9) because that's the kernel section, iykyk 💀

ngl bestie, this page has no options, no environment variables, no exit statuses, no signals, no bug notes and no examples — it's just a NAME, a SYNOPSIS, four arguments and a very long SEE ALSO. that's the whole thing. short king. 🫶

and that's the page, periodt 💖 this little ray of sunshine lives at ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and it's absolutely dripping in the Kernel API Manual energy. go forth and dump those originators, bestie — slay 🌈⭐

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