History log of /linux-master/net/batman-adv/Makefile
Revision Date Author Comments
# 07afe1ba 06-Sep-2023 Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

batman-adv: mcast: implement multicast packet reception and forwarding

Implement functionality to receive and forward a new TVLV capable
multicast packet type.

The new batman-adv multicast packet type allows to contain several
originator destination addresses within a TVLV. Routers on the way will
potentially split the batman-adv multicast packet and adjust its tracker
TVLV contents.

Routing decisions are still based on the selected BATMAN IV or BATMAN V
routing algorithm. So this new batman-adv multicast packet type retains
the same loop-free properties.

Also a new OGM multicast TVLV flag is introduced to signal to other
nodes that we are capable of handling a batman-adv multicast packet and
multicast tracker TVLV. And that all of our hard interfaces have an MTU
of at least 1280 bytes (IPv6 minimum MTU), as a simple solution for now
to avoid MTU issues while forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# cfa55c6d 31-Dec-2020 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next)
as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code mentioned
in the MAINTAINERS "BATMAN ADVANCED" section was handled as a single entity
regarding the publishing year.

This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright
holder) publishing information inside several files. But since the simple
"update copyright year" commit (without other changes) in the file was not
well received in the upstream kernel, the option to not have a copyright
year (for initial and last publication) in the files are chosen instead.
More detailed information about the years can still be retrieved from the
SCM system.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# aff6f5a6 17-Aug-2020 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs support

The debugfs support in batman-adv was marked as deprecated by the commit
00caf6a2b318 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality as deprecated") and
scheduled for removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 76e9f276 17-Aug-2020 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support

The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit
42cdd521487f ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and
scheduled for removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 68e039f9 31-Dec-2019 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 0fa4c30d 03-Mar-2019 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Make sysfs support optional

The sysfs files will be marked as deprecated in the near future. They are
already replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. Add an Kconfig
option to disable the sysfs support for users who want to test their tools
or want to safe some space. This setting should currently still be enabled
by default to keep backward compatible with legacy tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 0d5f20c4 03-Mar-2019 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369a4
("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the
required information about the license conditions can be found in
LICENSES/.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 7a79d717 31-Dec-2018 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2019

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# d331a739 10-Aug-2018 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Provide debug messages as trace events

A private debug logging infrastructure is currently provided via
$debug_fs/batman_adv/*/log when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG is enabled. This is
not well integrated in the rest of the tracing infrastructure of the
kernel.

Other components (like mac80211 or ath10k) allow to gather the debug
messages using generic trace events which are better integrated. This makes
it possible to interact with them using the existing userspace tools.

The tracepoint batadv:batadv_dbg will now be available when
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG and CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_TRACING is activated. The log
level mask is still used for filtering as usual.

A full system trace for offline parsing can be created (and read) using:

$ batctl ll all
$ trace-cmd record -e batadv:batadv_dbg
$ trace-cmd report

The same can also be done without recording to a file

$ batctl ll all
$ trace-cmd stream -e batadv:batadv_dbg

The trace infrastructure is especially helpful when tracing processes:

$ batctl ll all
$ ./tools/perf/perf trace --event "batadv:*" batctl p 10.204.32.1
0.000 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Parsing outgoing ARP REQUEST
0.045 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 ARP MSG = [src: a2:64:14:53:f8:22-10.204.32.185 dst: 00:00:00:00:00:00-10.204.32.1]
0.067 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Entry updated: 10.204.32.185 a2:64:14:53:f8:22 (vid: -1)
0.099 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 batadv_dat_select_candidates(): IP=10.204.32.1 hash(IP)=48902
0.757 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 0: selected fe:2c:91:68:29:2b addr=48977 dist=65460
1.178 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 1: selected fe:81:ab:c5:e3:03 addr=49181 dist=65256
1.809 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 2: selected 66:25:a7:48:37:fb addr=49328 dist=65109
1.828 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 DHT_SEND for 10.204.32.1

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 6b1aea8c 31-Dec-2017 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2018

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 7db7d9f3 19-Nov-2017 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header

The "Linux kernel licensing rules" require that each file has a SPDX
license identifier as first line (and sometimes as second line).

The FSFE REUSE practices [1] would also require the same tags but have no
restrictions on the placement in the source file. Using the "Linux kernel
licensing rules" is therefore also fulfilling the FSFE REUSE practices
requirements at the same time.

[1] https://reuse.software/practices/

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# ac79cbb9 31-Dec-2016 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2017

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# dc1cbd14 16-Jul-2016 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Allow to disable debugfs support

The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to
netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may
still rely on the old debugfs files. But systems which already upgraded
their tools can save some space by disabling this feature. The default
configuration of batman-adv on amd64 can reduce the size of the module by
around 11% when this feature is disabled.

$ size net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko*
text data bss dec hex filename
150507 10395 4160 165062 284c6 net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.y
137106 7099 2112 146317 23b8d net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.n

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 33a3bb4a 05-May-2016 Antonio Quartulli <antonio.quartulli@open-mesh.com>

batman-adv: throughput meter implementation

The throughput meter module is a simple, kernel-space replacement for
throughtput measurements tool like iperf and netperf. It is intended to
approximate TCP behaviour.

It is invoked through batctl: the protocol is connection oriented, with
cumulative acknowledgment and a dynamic-size sliding window.

The test *can* be interrupted by batctl. A receiver side timeout avoids
unlimited waitings for sender packets: after one second of inactivity, the
receiver abort the ongoing test.

Based on a prototype from Edo Monticelli <montik@autistici.org>

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio.quartulli@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 09748a22 09-May-2016 Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>

batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-adv

debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel
where files are dynamically added and removed (see
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some
details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware.

Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be
moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers
for debug tables and hard to parse text files.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
[sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family,
add missing kerneldoc]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# ba412080 15-May-2016 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functions

There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related
functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them
easier to find.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 01d350d1 15-May-2016 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: move bat_algo functions into a separate file

The bat_algo functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~15%, 103
lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main
component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other
helper functions in main.c.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 1f8dce49 15-May-2016 Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>

batman-adv: split tvlv into a separate file

The tvlv functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~45%, 588
lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main
component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other
helper functions in main.c

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version, fix includes,
rewrote commit message]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>


# 0da00359 16-Jan-2016 Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>

batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure

This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol
(version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the
newly added ELP.

In the previous version the OGM protocol was used to both
measure link qualities and flood the network with the metric
information. In this version the protocol is in charge of
the latter task only, leaving the former to ELP.

This means being able to decouple the interval used by the
neighbor discovery from the OGM broadcasting, which revealed
to be costly in dense networks and needed to be relaxed so
leading to a less responsive routing protocol.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>


# d6f94d91 16-Jan-2016 Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure

The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single
message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to
the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality
information through the whole mesh. This procedure is
summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in
details in the RFC draft published in 2008.

This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the
protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it
also bears some drawbacks:

* Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss,
therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow
a fast reaction on flaky connections.
Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to
Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet
loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce
overhead.
* It generally is more desirable to detect local link
quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all
these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of
the mesh does not need to care about local link quality
changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like
reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't
used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time.

As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled
by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message
type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these
link quality information and determining the overall path
transmit qualities.

Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.

Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>


# 0046b040 31-Dec-2015 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>


# 9fc1883e 25-Dec-2014 Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>

batman-adv: Makefile, Sort alphabetically

The whole Makefile is sorted, just the multicast rule is not at the
right position.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>


# 9bb21882 25-Dec-2014 Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>

batman-adv: debugfs, avoid compiling for !DEBUG_FS

Normally the debugfs framework will return error pointer with -ENODEV
for function calls when DEBUG_FS is not set.

batman does not notice this error code and continues trying to create
debugfs files and executes more code. We can avoid this code execution
by disabling compiling debugfs.c when DEBUG_FS is not set.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>


# 9f6446c7 23-Apr-2015 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>


# c5caf4ef 15-Feb-2014 Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

batman-adv: Multicast Listener Announcements via Translation Table

With this patch a node which has no bridge interface on top of its soft
interface announces its local multicast listeners via the translation
table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>


# e19f9759 04-Jan-2014 Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>

batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>


# ebf38fb7 03-Nov-2013 Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>

batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer

As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>


# 610bfc6bc 23-May-2013 Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>

batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge

Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge.
Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never
been fragmented.

Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing
interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>


# f097e25d 23-May-2013 Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>

batman-adv: Remove old fragmentation code

Remove the existing fragmentation code before adding the new version
and delete unicast.{h,c}.

batadv_unicast_send_skb() is moved to send.c and renamed to
batadv_send_skb_unicast().

fragmentation entry in sysfs (bat_priv->fragmentation) is kept for use in
the new fragmentation code.

BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet type is renamed to BATADV_FRAG for use in the
new fragmentation code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>


# 9f4980e6 25-Apr-2013 Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

batman-adv: remove vis functionality

This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>


# 24a5deeb 08-Apr-2013 Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

batman-adv: move ring_buffer helper functions in bat_iv_ogm

the two lonely ring_buffer helper functions are used by the
bat_iv_ogm module only and therefore they can be moved
inside it.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>


# 9cb812c5 13-Mar-2013 Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

batman-adv: update Makefile copyright years

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>


# d353d8d4 25-Jan-2013 Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>

batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code

Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B
2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B
3. Node A <--- p2 ---- Node R Node B
4. Node A Node R ---- p1 ---> Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B
2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B
3. Node A <- p1 x p2 - Node R - p1 x p2 -> Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

Node A Node B

| \ / |
| p1 p2 |
| \ / |
p1 > Node R < p2
| |
| / \ |
| p1 x p2 p1 x p2 |
v / \ v
/ \
Node C < > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>


# 17224474 05-Nov-2011 Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add compile option

This patch makes it possible to decide whether to include DAT within the
batman-adv binary or not.
It is extremely useful when the user wants to reduce the size of the resulting
module by cutting off any not needed feature.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>


# 785ea114 23-Nov-2011 Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions

Add all the relevant functions in order to manage a Distributed Hash Table over
the B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv network. It will later be used to store several ARP entries
and implement DAT (Distributed ARP Table)

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>


# b706b13b 10-Jun-2012 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Remove bat_ prefix from bat_{debugfs, sysfs}.{c, h}

The "bat_" prefix in the source files implementing the batman-adv sysfs and
debugfs interface doesn't have a special meaning and are only used by these
files and files that implement the actual B.A.T.M.A.N. path finding algorithm.

The prefix is better suited to mark files that are used to implement the main
part of the path finding. All other files should not use it and therefore gets
renamed.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>


# 7a5cc242 22-Jan-2012 Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>

batman-adv: add bridge loop avoidance compile option

The define CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA switches the bridge loop avoidance
on - skip it, and the bridge loop avoidance is not compiled in.

This is useful if binary size should be saved or the feature is
not needed.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>


# 23721387 22-Jan-2012 Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>

batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code

This second version of the bridge loop avoidance for batman-adv
avoids loops between the mesh and a backbone (usually a LAN).

By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet
segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged
into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop
involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment:

node1 <-- LAN --> node2
| |
wifi <-- mesh --> wifi

Packets from the LAN (e.g. ARP broadcasts) will circle forever from
node1 or node2 over the mesh back into the LAN.

With this patch, batman recognizes backbone gateways, nodes which are
part of the mesh and backbone/LAN at the same time. Each backbone
gateway "claims" clients from within the mesh to handle them
exclusively. By restricting that only responsible backbone gateways
may handle their claimed clients traffic, loops are effectively
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>


# 567db7b0 31-Dec-2011 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Update copyright years

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>


# b9dacc52 03-Aug-2011 Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm sending functions in the batman iv file

In the process the batman iv OGM aggregation code could be merged
into the batman iv code base which makes the separate aggregation
files superfluous.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>


# fc957275 29-Jul-2011 Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single file

In preparation of the upcoming improved routing algorithm the code based has
to be re-organized to allow choosing the routing algorithm at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>


# 64afe353 27-Jan-2011 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv: Update copyright years

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>


# c6c8fea2 13-Dec-2010 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol

B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>