batadv_recv_bcast_packet(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 batadv_recv_bcast_packet(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for batadv_recv_bcast_packet(9) — yes the title is a whole mouthful but we move 🫶. this is the little function that handles incoming broadcast packets, and honestly? it's giving traffic-cop-but-make-it-cute energy 💖

✨ NAME ✨

batadv_recv_bcast_packet — literally just process incoming broadcast packet, that's the whole vibe 🔥

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int batadv_recv_bcast_packet (struct sk_buff *skb , struct
batadv_hard_iface *recv_if );

so she takes two things and gives you back an int, periodt 💅 keep the spacing exactly like that, the compiler does not care about aesthetics but we do 🎀

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • skb — the incoming packet buffer, aka the whole entire package being handed to you, no cap 📦
  • recv_if — the incoming hard interface, aka which NIC this lil packet strolled in through 🧚

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • NET_RX_SUCCESS — slay, it worked, success era 👑
  • NET_RX_DROP — not slay, failure era, the packet gets dropped 😭

that's it, those are the only two outcomes, highkey simple fr fr

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

so if you're the kind of bestie who goes down the rabbit hole (respect 🫶), these all live in the Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/routing.c and they're all so worth a little scroll:

like, that's the whole friend group, the entire roster, iykyk 🌈

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this lil manual lives in ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and it's always gonna be batadv_recv_bcast_packet(9) to me 🎀✨

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