batadv_wifi_...devices_init(9)

💅 batadv_wifi_net_devices_init — the kernel API manual (9) section, bestie ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page straight out of the kernel API manual, section 9, and the star of the show is batadv_wifi_net_devices_init. She's a little function with one job and she does it, periodt. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

batadv_wifi_net_devices_init — get that wifi devices cache set up and ready, like fluffing the pillows before the group chat arrives 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int batadv_wifi_net_devices_init (void );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — literally no arguments, bestie. She takes nothing. Zero. Nada. She's lowkey self-sufficient like that 🫶

💫 RETURN 💫

• 0 — success, slay, we ate 👑
• negative error code — failure, and it's giving 😭 so like, check it, don't ignore it

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay so this is the part where I introduce you to literally the entire friend group. The kernel file doing all the work here lives at ./net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c, and here are all her mutuals, iykyk:

• batadv_hardif_release(9)
• batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(9)
• batadv_getlink_net(9)
• batadv_mutual_parents(9)
• batadv_is_on_batman_iface(9)
• batadv_is_valid_iface(9)
• __batadv_get_real_netdev(9)
• batadv_get_real_netdev(9)
• batadv_is_wext_netdev(9)
• batadv_is_cfg80211_netdev(9)
• batadv_wifi_flags_evaluate(9)
• batadv_netdev_get_wifi_flags(9)
• batadv_hardif_get_wifi_flags(9)
• batadv_is_wifi_hardif(9)
• batadv_hardif_no_broadcast(9)
• batadv_hardif_get_active(9)
• batadv_primary_if_update_addr(9)
• batadv_primary_if_select(9)
• batadv_hardif_is_iface_up(9)
• batadv_check_known_mac_addr(9)
• batadv_hardif_recalc_extra_skbroom(9)
• batadv_hardif_min_mtu(9)
• batadv_update_min_mtu(9)
• batadv_hardif_activate_interface(9)
• batadv_hardif_deactivate_interface(9)
• batadv_hardif_enable_interface(9)
• batadv_hardif_disable_interface(9)
• batadv_hard_if_event_meshif(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_insert(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_remove(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_update(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_unregister(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_device_event(9)
• batadv_hard_if_event(9)
• batadv_wifi_net_devices_deinit(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 sign-off time: this one comes to you from ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026 — a whole era. mwah 🧚🌸