kernel/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h, branch v6.6.131

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

2021-02-06T08:22:10+00:00

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 This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright holder) publishing information inside several files.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 Acked-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Allow selection of routing algorithm over rtnetlink

2020-12-04T07:40:52+00:00

A batadv net_device is associated to a B.A.T.M.A.N. routing algorithm. This algorithm has to be selected before the interface is initialized and cannot be changed after that. The only way to select this algorithm was a module parameter which specifies the default algorithm used during the creation of the net_device. This module parameter is writeable over /sys/module/batman_adv/parameters/routing_algo and thus allows switching of the routing algorithm: 1. change routing_algo parameter 2. create new batadv net_device But this is not race free because another process can be scheduled between 1 + 2 and in that time frame change the routing_algo parameter again. It is much cleaner to directly provide this information inside the rtnetlink's RTM_NEWLINK message. The two processes would be (in regards of the creation parameter of their batadv interfaces) be isolated. This also eases the integration of batadv devices inside tools like network-manager or systemd-networkd which are not expecting to operate on /sys before a new net_device is created. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Prepare infrastructure for newlink settings

2020-12-04T07:40:52+00:00

The batadv generic netlink family can be used to retrieve the current state and set various configuration settings. But there are also settings which must be set before the actual interface is created. The rtnetlink already uses IFLA_INFO_DATA to allow net_device families to transfer such configurations. The minimal required functionality for this is now available for the batadv rtnl_link_ops. Also a new IFLA class of attributes will be attached to it because rtnetlink only allows 51 different attributes but batadv_nl_attrs already contains 62 attributes. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Introduce a configurable per interface hop penalty

2020-06-26T08:37:11+00:00

In some setups multiple hard interfaces with similar link qualities or throughput values are available. But people have expressed the desire to consider one of them as a backup only. Some creative solutions are currently in use: Such people are configuring multiple batman-adv mesh/soft interfaces, wire them together with some veth pairs and then tune the hop penalty to achieve an effect similar to a tunable per interface hop penalty. This patch introduces a new, configurable, per hard interface hop penalty to simplify such setups. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Fix typos and grammar in documentation

2020-06-26T08:36:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

2019-12-31T23:00:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Add multicast-to-unicast support for multiple targets

2019-03-25T09:01:13+00:00

With this patch multicast packets with a limited number of destinations (current default: 16) will be split and transmitted by the originator as individual unicast transmissions. Wifi broadcasts with their low bitrate are still a costly undertaking. In a mesh network this cost multiplies with the overall size of the mesh network. Therefore using multiple unicast transmissions instead of broadcast flooding is almost always less burdensome for the mesh network. The maximum amount of unicast packets can be configured via the newly introduced multicast_fanout parameter. If this limit is exceeded distribution will fall back to classic broadcast flooding. The multicast-to-unicast conversion is performed on the initial multicast sender node and counts on a final destination node, mesh-wide basis (and not next hop, neighbor node basis). Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

2019-03-25T08:31:35+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Add throughput_override hardif genl configuration

2019-02-09T13:28:15+00:00

The B.A.T.M.A.N. V implementation tries to estimate the link throughput of an interface to an originator using different automatic methods. It is still possible to overwrite it the link throughput for all reachable originators via this interface. The BATADV_CMD_SET_HARDIF/BATADV_CMD_GET_HARDIF commands allow to set/get the configuration of this feature using the u32 BATADV_ATTR_THROUGHPUT_OVERRIDE attribute. The used unit is in 100 Kbit/s. If the value is set to 0 then batman-adv will try to estimate the throughput by itself. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Add elp_interval hardif genl configuration

2019-02-09T13:28:15+00:00

The ELP packets are transmitted every elp_interval milliseconds on an slave/hard-interface. This value can be changed using the configuration interface. The BATADV_CMD_SET_HARDIF/BATADV_CMD_GET_HARDIF commands allow to set/get the configuration of this feature using the u32 BATADV_ATTR_ELP_INTERVAL attribute. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich