named_prepare_buf(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the named_prepare_buf(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is literally about one thing: allocate & initialize a publication message. That's it, that's the vibe.

named_prepare_buf — allocate & initialize a publication message 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the exact signature, no cap:

struct sk_buff * named_prepare_buf (struct net *net , u32 type , u32 size , u32 dest );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

four args, let's go:

• net — the associated network namespace 🛰️
• type — message type 🏷️
• size — payload size 📏
• dest — destination node 📍

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The buffer returned is of size INT_H_SIZE + payload size — that's the tea, no extra lore here. Short and iconic, fr fr 💅.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group:

• Kernel file ./net/tipc/name_distr.c — publ_to_item(9) 📁
• tipc_named_publish(9)
• tipc_named_withdraw(9)
• named_distribute(9)
• tipc_named_node_up(9)
• tipc_publ_purge(9)
• tipc_update_nametbl(9)
• tipc_named_rcv(9)
• tipc_named_reinit(9)

okay that's the whole page! source/version: ./net/tipc, date: October 2026 — go off, bestie 💜🫶