batadv_v_gw_...best_gw_node(9)

💅 NAME 💅

batadv_v_gw_get_best_gw_node — retrieve the best GW node ✨

So bestie, this manual page is filed under the title batadv_v_gw_...best_gw_node(9), and it lives in the Kernel API Manual — yes, we're in kernel-docs territory now, hydrate accordingly 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct batadv_gw_node * batadv_v_gw_get_best_gw_node (struct batadv_priv
*bat_priv );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• bat_priv — the bat priv with all the mesh interface information 💖 literally the whole mesh's info lives in here, no cap.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

It hands you back the GW node having the best GW-metric, and honestly? Iconic behavior. 👑

If no GW is known, you get NULL instead — so do a vibe check on that pointer before you dereference it, bestie 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/bat_v.c — and the whole friend group it comes with:

• batadv_v_iface_activate(9)
• batadv_v_iface_enable(9)
• batadv_v_iface_disable(9)
• batadv_v_primary_iface_set(9)
• batadv_v_iface_update_mac(9)
• batadv_v_hardif_neigh_init(9)
• batadv_v_neigh_dump_neigh(9)
• batadv_v_neigh_dump_hardif(9)
• batadv_v_neigh_dump(9)
• batadv_v_orig_dump_subentry(9)
• batadv_v_orig_dump_entry(9)
• batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket(9)
• batadv_v_orig_dump(9)
• batadv_v_neigh_cmp(9)
• batadv_v_neigh_is_sob(9)
• batadv_v_init_sel_class(9)
• batadv_v_gw_throughput_get(9)
• batadv_v_gw_is_eligible(9)
• batadv_v_gw_dump_entry(9)
• batadv_v_gw_dump(9)
• batadv_v_hardif_init(9)
• batadv_v_mesh_init(9)
• batadv_v_mesh_free(9)
• batadv_v_init(9)
• batadv_v_deinit(9)

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Heads up bestie: that SEE ALSO crowd are all (9) kernel-API pages, so bring your whole brain to this study session 🧚✨

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Ok that's the whole page, and that's on periodt 💅 Source/version: ./net/batman-adv 🌸 dated October 2026 — mwah, see u in the next manpage, love u, bye 🎀💜