batadv_orig_ifinfo_new(9)

✨ batadv_orig_ifinfo_new(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (the batadv_orig_ifinfo_new one, bestie, keep up 💅) and it's literally just one function doing a vibe check on your orig nodes and then, if the vibe isn't there yet, making the vibe. iconic behavior tbh.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_orig_ifinfo_new — search and possibly create an orig_ifinfo object 🦋

like, it goes looking for one, and if it can't find one it just... builds it. main character energy fr.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct batadv_orig_ifinfo * batadv_orig_ifinfo_new (struct batadv_orig_node *orig_node , struct batadv_hard_iface *if_outgoing );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• orig_node — the orig node you wanna query, bestie. that's the one you're asking about 👑
• if_outgoing — the interface you want the ifinfo for. like, which interface is this info even about 🧚

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💖 RETURN 💖

So it returns NULL if things go sideways (failure, no cap 😭) — otherwise you get back the orig_ifinfo object for the if_outgoing interface. And here's the cute part: if that object didn't exist yet, it gets created and added to the list for you. it's giving "i got you" 🫶

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

The object comes back to you with its refcounter increased by 1. literally one (1) more ref. don't forget to give it back later, iykyk 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

The kernel file this lives in is ./net/batman-adv/originator.c — that's home base 🏠 and the whole squad is here:

• the orig-node finding/creating crew: batadv_orig_hash_find(9), batadv_compare_orig(9), batadv_orig_node_new(9)
• the vlan girlies: batadv_orig_node_vlan_get(9), batadv_vlan_id_valid(9), batadv_orig_node_vlan_new(9), batadv_orig_node_vlan_release(9)
• the originator lifecycle: batadv_originator_init(9), batadv_originator_free(9), batadv_orig_node_free_rcu(9), batadv_orig_node_release(9)
• ifinfo + routing: batadv_orig_ifinfo_get(9), batadv_orig_ifinfo_release(9), batadv_orig_router_get(9), batadv_orig_to_router(9)
• neighbor ifinfo things: batadv_neigh_ifinfo_release(9), batadv_neigh_ifinfo_get(9), batadv_neigh_ifinfo_new(9), batadv_purge_neigh_ifinfo(9)
• hardif neighbor things: batadv_hardif_neigh_release(9), batadv_hardif_neigh_create(9), batadv_hardif_neigh_get_or_create(9), batadv_hardif_neigh_get(9), batadv_hardif_neigh_dump(9)
• neighbor nodes: batadv_neigh_node_release(9), batadv_neigh_node_get(9), batadv_neigh_node_create(9), batadv_neigh_node_get_or_create(9), batadv_find_best_neighbor(9)
• the purge patrol 🔥: batadv_purge_orig_ifinfo(9), batadv_purge_orig_neighbors(9), batadv_purge_orig_node(9), batadv_purge_orig_ref(9), batadv_purge_orig(9)
• and the dump: batadv_orig_dump(9)

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ngl if you're reading the originator code you should probably read the release/purge ones too — that's where the refcounting lore lives 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, love u, go read some kernel code 💜 — it's from ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and the page itself is batadv_orig_ifinfo_new(9). slay, bye 👋✨