batadv_mesh_init(9)

💖 batadv_mesh_init — a Kernel API Manual moment 💖

okay so this is batadv_mesh_init(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the glow-up ritual for a mesh interface ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_mesh_init — Initialize mesh interface

yes bestie, that's the whole job: it sets the mesh interface up. main character energy only 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int batadv_mesh_init (struct net_device *mesh_iface );

like, you hand it a netdev and it hands you back an int. simple as that 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• mesh_iface — the netdev struct of the mesh interface. that's your girl right there, the one getting initialized 💖

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 🎉
• a negative error number in case of failure 😭 (not me getting a negative back, that's the vibe check failing fr fr)

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

so like, the kernel file is ./net/batman-adv/main.c, and here's the whole squad of friends you should also go read, no cap:

• batadv_init(9)
• batadv_exit(9)
• batadv_mesh_free(9)
• batadv_is_my_mac(9)
• batadv_max_header_len(9)
• batadv_skb_set_priority(9)
• batadv_recv_unhandled_packet(9)
• batadv_batman_skb_recv(9)
• batadv_recv_handler_init(9)
• batadv_recv_handler_register(9)
• batadv_recv_handler_unregister(9)
• batadv_get_vid(9)
• batadv_vlan_ap_isola_get(9)
• batadv_throw_uevent(9)

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lowkey important: if it fails, you get a negative error number back — check it, don't just ignore it, bestie 🙈

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that's the whole page, mwah 💋

and for the cute sign-off: this one lives over in ./net/batman-adv, it's dated October 2026, and it's part of the batadv_mesh_init(9) Kernel API Manual — periodt 🎀✨💜