ieee80211_f...sh_addresses(9)

✨ NAME ✨

ieee80211_fill_mesh_addresses — okay so this one fills in the addresses of a mesh frame that got born right here on your local machine 💅 it's giving "homegrown frame, homegrown addresses," iykyk.

oh and bestie, real quick — this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and the header up top is stylin' it as ieee80211_f...sh_addresses(9) (yes the ellipsis is literally part of the vibe, don't come for her 🎀).

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ieee80211_fill_mesh_addresses (struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr , __le16
*fc , const u8 *meshda , const u8 *meshsa );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• hdr — the 802.11 frame header, aka the main character of this whole operation 👑
• fc — the frame control field, iconic, essential, no notes ✨
• meshda — the destination address in the mesh, where it's all going down 🎯
• meshsa — the source address in the mesh. and lowkey this one is the same as TA, because the frame is locally originated, fr fr 🫶

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🎀 RETURN 🎀

it returns the length of the 802.11 frame header — and bestie, please note: that's excluding the mesh control header 💀 like don't count it, she's not included, periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./net/mac80211/mesh.c — the mothership 🧚
• mesh_matches_local(9)
• mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(9)
• mesh_accept_plinks_update(9)
• mesh_rmc_check(9)
• ieee80211_new_mesh_header(9)

go read the whole friend group, they're all linked up 💜

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quick vibe check: everything above is straight from the kernel API docs — I'm not out here inventing behaviour, I promise 🙈 slay responsibly.

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💖 this one's from ./net/mac80211, dated October 2026, and yes she's still rockin' the ieee80211_f...sh_addresses(9) title in the Kernel API Manual — iconic, no cap 🎀⭐