mesh_matches_local(9)

✨ mesh_matches_local(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual 💅 today we're talking about mesh_matches_local(9) — yes it's a mouthful, yes it's iconic, no you don't need to panic 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mesh_matches_local — check if the config of a mesh point matches ours 🔍✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bool mesh_matches_local (struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata , struct
ieee802_11_elems *ie );

literally just two args, we love a low-maintenance function 😌 and yes it returns a bool, she's giving simple answers only 💖

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sdata — the local mesh subif, aka our own little corner of the mesh 🌈
• ie — the information elements of a management frame from the mesh peer 👀 iykyk

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so what does she actually do? this function checks if the mesh configuration of a mesh point matches the local mesh configuration — like, the vibe check of the mesh world 💅 if both nodes belong to the same mesh network, that's a match, periodt ✨

no cap, that's the whole bit: are we the same mesh or not 🦋

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

true if both nodes belong to the same mesh 🌸 — and if they don't? well, you get the other value, and honestly that's its own whole mood 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./net/mac80211/mesh.c
• mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(9)
• mesh_accept_plinks_update(9)
• mesh_rmc_check(9)
• ieee80211_fill_mesh_addresses(9)
• ieee80211_new_mesh_header(9)

go read those too bestie, they're all part of the same friend group fr fr 🫶

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friendly reminder that this was living in ./net/mac80211 — that's her home directory and we respect it 💜

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and that's the page!! written under the Kernel API Manual label, dated October 2026, from the source at ./net/mac80211 — mwah, go slay your mesh config 💋🎀🌸