mesh_gate_num(9)

✨ mesh_gate_num(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one's a function page — mesh_gate_num(9) — and it's honestly icon behavior, short and sweet. it tells you how many gates a given interface knows about. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mesh_gate_num — number of gates known to this interface

like, literally the count of gates this interface knows about. no more, no less. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int mesh_gate_num (struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata );

that's the whole signature, fr fr. returns an int, takes one arg, done. ✨

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• sdata — the subif data 🫶 (that's "subinterface data" if you're new here, and no, i will not be elaborating further, the manpage doesn't and neither will i 😭)

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

the number of gates. that's the return value. the count. the total. the amount of gates this interface knows about. periodt. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this is the part where it gets good — the kernel file this lives in is ./net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c, and it's giving "i have a whole friend group and you're about to meet all of them" 🌈

• mesh_path_assign_nexthop(9)
• mesh_path_move_to_queue(9)
• mesh_path_lookup(9)
• mesh_path_lookup_by_idx(9)
• mpp_path_lookup_by_idx(9)
• mesh_path_add_gate(9)
• mesh_gate_del(9)
• mesh_path_add(9)
• mesh_plink_broken(9)
• mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop(9)
• mesh_path_flush_by_iface(9)
• table_path_del(9)
• mesh_path_del(9)
• mesh_path_tx_pending(9)
• mesh_path_send_to_gates(9)
• mesh_path_discard_frame(9)
• mesh_path_flush_pending(9)
• mesh_path_fix_nexthop(9)

the way that's a whole squad 😭 every single one of them, no cap, all listed, all linked, go read them when you're done here 🧚

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ngl bestie, this page is tiny but she ate. one arg, one return value, one beautiful little function. 💜

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and that's a wrap!! this page comes to you from ./net/mac80211, dated October 2026 — mwah, love that for us 💅✨🍓