mesh_path_send_to_gates(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 mesh_path_send_to_gates(9) 💅

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and this one's a little networking baddie from the mesh world. let me put you on. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

mesh_path_send_to_gates — literally sends those pending frames off to all the known mesh gates. no gate left behind, periodt. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int mesh_path_send_to_gates (struct mesh_path *mpath );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • mpath — the mesh path whose queue is about to get emptied. yeah, that one. she's the main character of this function and her queue is getting cleared out. 🫶

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so here's the tea, and it's honestly kind of elegant:

if there's only one gate, the frames get transferred from the failed mpath queue over to that gate's queue. simple. one gate, one destination, slay. 💅

but if there's more than one gate? now we're doing the little relay thing — the frames are copied from each gate to the next one along. icon behaviour honestly. 🧚

and then, after the frames are copied, the mpath queues are emptied onto the transmission queue. bye bestie, go get transmitted. ✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

  • 0 on success 🎉
  • -EHOSTUNREACH 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file ./net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c and all her friends:

like genuinely go read them, they're all in the group chat. 💜

aaaand that's the page! 🎀 this one came at you from the source ./net/mac80211, dated October 2026 — catch you on the next one, bestie, mwah 💖✨🦋

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