batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket(9) 🦋 — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 💅

Okay so this is the manual page for batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket(9), and we're gonna get through it together, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket — dump an originator bucket into a message. That's the whole job, and honestly? Iconic. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the signature in all its glory, bestie:

int batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket (struct sk_buff *msg , u32 portid , u32
seq , struct batadv_priv *bat_priv , struct batadv_hard_iface
*if_outgoing , struct hlist_head *head , int *idx_s , int *sub );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

Every single argument, no skipping, periodt:

  • msg — the Netlink message you're dumping into 💌
  • portid — the port making the netlink request 👀
  • seq — the sequence number of the netlink message 🔢
  • bat_priv — the bat priv with all the mesh interface information, lowkey the main character here 🫶
  • if_outgoing — limit the dump to entries with this outgoing interface 🚪
  • head — the bucket to be dumped 🪣
  • idx_s — number of entries to be skipped, we're hopping over them ✨
  • sub — number of sub entries to be skipped, yes specifically sub entries 🎀

🦋 RETURN 🦋

Error code, or 0 on success. So if you get 0, that's a slay; anything else is the error code doing its thing. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The kernel file where this lives is ./net/batman-adv/bat_v.c, and here's the whole function fam — every name exactly as it appears, iykyk:

Signed with love by the ./net/batman-adv crew, dated October 2026 — batadv_v_orig_dump_bucket(9) out! 🫶💖✨

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