batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition

okay so you found yourself in the batman-adv section of the kernel API manual, and the function you're staring at is batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add — lowkey the bouncer at the club door of OGM transmissions. It queues up an OGM for transmission. That's it, that's the vibe. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add — queue up an OGM for transmission 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add (struct batadv_priv *bat_priv , unsigned
char *packet_buff , int packet_len , struct batadv_hard_iface
*if_incoming , struct batadv_hard_iface *if_outgoing , int own_packet ,
unsigned long send_time );

like, yes, it's a bool. she returns something. keep reading. 😌

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • bat_priv — the bat priv with all the mesh interface information 💖 literally the whole personality of the mesh interface lives in here
  • packet_buff — pointer to the OGM 🫶 that's your actual packet bestie
  • packet_len — (total) length of the OGM 📏 yes, total, the whole thing
  • if_incoming — interface where the packet was received 🎀 where it came from, the origin story
  • if_outgoing — interface for which the retransmission should be considered 🦋 i.e. where we're thinking about sending it back out
  • own_packet — true if it is a self-generated ogm 👑 main character energy: did we make this one
  • send_time — timestamp (jiffies) when the packet is to be sent ⏰ jiffies, not seconds, do not come for me

🔥 RETURN 🔥

whether forward packet was scheduled — that's the whole answer, a yes-or-no vibe check on whether the forward packet got scheduled 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the source of truth, no cap: Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c 👀 and then, like, the entire extended friend group:

okay that's a lot of cross-references but that's literally the whole module's call graph being iconic at you, iykyk 🧚

and that's the page, bestie!! 🍓 this whole thing lives in the kernel tree at ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and it's the batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add(9) page — go queue something, periodt 💜

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