batadv_netli...from_ifindex(9)

💅 NAME 💅

batadv_netlink_get_meshif_from_ifindex — okay so this is the little guy that gets you the mesh-iface from an ifindex ✨

(this is a section 9 page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie, so yes it's kernel-internal and yes it's iconic)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct net_device * batadv_netlink_get_meshif_from_ifindex (struct net
*net , int ifindex );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• net — the applicable net namespace 🫶 like, the whole namespace vibe this lookup lives in.
• ifindex — index of the mesh interface 💫 the number you're handing over so it can find your mesh iface.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

Pointer to mesh interface (with increased refcnt) on success 🎉 — and an error pointer on error 💀.

Heads up bestie: on success the refcnt is increased, so don't just toss that pointer in the void. That's an accounting situation, fr fr.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/netlink.c, enum

• batadv_netlink_multicast_groups(9)
• enum batadv_genl_ops_flags(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_ifindex(9)
• batadv_netlink_mesh_fill_ap_isolation(9)
• batadv_netlink_set_mesh_ap_isolation(9)
• batadv_netlink_mesh_fill(9)
• batadv_netlink_notify_mesh(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_mesh(9)
• batadv_netlink_set_mesh(9)
• batadv_netlink_tp_meter_put(9)
• batadv_netlink_tpmeter_notify(9)
• batadv_netlink_tp_meter_start(9)
• batadv_netlink_tp_meter_cancel(9)
• batadv_netlink_hardif_fill(9)
• batadv_netlink_notify_hardif(9)
• batadv_netlink_cmd_get_hardif(9)
• batadv_netlink_set_hardif(9)
• batadv_netlink_dump_hardif(9)
• batadv_netlink_vlan_fill(9)
• batadv_netlink_notify_vlan(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_vlan(9)
• batadv_netlink_set_vlan(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_meshif_from_info(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_meshif(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_hardif_from_ifindex(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_hardif_from_info(9)
• batadv_netlink_get_hardif(9)
• batadv_get_vlan_from_info(9)
• batadv_pre_doit(9)
• batadv_post_doit(9)
• batadv_netlink_register(9)
• batadv_netlink_unregister(9)

That's the whole netlink friend group btw 👑 read them, they ate 💅

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✿ and that's the page!! ✿ brought to you by the source/version line ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026 — mwah, go touch some mesh interfaces 💖🎀🦋