batadv_v_elp_periodic_work(9)

✨ batadv_v_elp_periodic_work(9) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, the kernel has its own manual, she's iconic like that 💅 — and today's main character is batadv_v_elp_periodic_work. buckle up 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_v_elp_periodic_work — the ELP periodic task that lives per interface, one for each of them, no cap 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void batadv_v_elp_periodic_work (struct work_struct *work );

literally that's the whole signature, she's not complicated 💖

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• work — the work queue item 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument, she just wants her little work item and she's happy

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what does she do, you ask? she emits broadcast ELP messages in regular intervals ✨

that's the whole vibe. she shows up, she broadcasts her ELP messages on a regular interval schedule, she leaves. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• the kernel file is ./net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c, plus the struct in there — go read it, iykyk 🧚
• batadv_v_metric_queue_entry(9)
• batadv_v_elp_start_timer(9)
• batadv_v_elp_get_throughput(9)
• batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update(9)
• batadv_v_elp_wifi_neigh_probe(9)
• batadv_v_elp_iface_enable(9)
• batadv_v_elp_iface_disable(9)
• batadv_v_elp_iface_activate(9)
• batadv_v_elp_primary_iface_set(9)
• batadv_v_elp_neigh_update(9)
• batadv_v_elp_packet_recv(9)

like, the whole ELP friend group 💀 all of them, tagged, present, accounted for 🍓

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and that's the page!! mwah 🫶 this little beauty ships out of ./net/batman-adv and her version is dated October 2026 — see you in the kernel, bestie, stay slay 💅⭐