mesh_plink_broken(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the page for mesh_plink_broken(9) in the Kernel API Manual ✨ this function is literally called mesh_plink_broken, and it deactivates paths and sends perr when a link breaks 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void mesh_plink_broken (struct sta_info *sta );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• sta — the broken peer link 😭 like, that's the whole vibe

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea ☕: this function must be called from the rate control algorithm if enough delivery errors suggest that a peer link is no longer usable 😭 the link is giving expired-vibe, and the algorithm needs to know, so call it. periodt 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie, the whole mesh path crew is here — no cap, every single one is invited to the group chat 🫶

• Kernel file: ./net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c — the source file in question 🏠
• 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_gate_num(9)
• mesh_path_add(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)

mwah 💋 this page came from ./net/mac80211, stamped October 2026, and it's the mesh_plink_broken(9) manual page — slay and goodbye, bestie 🫶✨