batadv_v_iface_enable(9)

✨ batadv_v_iface_enable(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for batadv_v_iface_enable — and yes this is exactly as iconic as it sounds 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_v_iface_enable — turn on the B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol on an interface 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int batadv_v_iface_enable (struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface );

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• hard_iface — the interface you're enabling, bestie. that's the one. 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what does it actually do? It enables the ELP and OGM components for hard_iface. Both of them. Together. Slay 💅

And here's the part that's giving responsible main character energy: if something goes wrong, the partially enabled state gets rolled back before the function returns. no half-on vibes left behind, periodt 🙈

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 🎉
• a negative error number in case of failure 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./net/batman-adv/bat_v.c — and honestly, the whole friend group showed up for this one:

• batadv_v_iface_activate(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_get_best_gw_node(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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okay that's the whole page, ily, go enable some interfaces 💖

signed, sealed, delivered from ./net/batman-adv — dated October 2026 🎀✨