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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-07-09 03:13:10 +0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-07-09 03:13:10 +0400 |
commit | 9274f9f895be561274ac13b37494abbc4243aebc (patch) | |
tree | d4247dfb6ac918beb7b515cac71c6f334635a486 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4 | |
parent | 70452dcb6d401349fbd6db55dfab112fb44639be (diff) | |
parent | c34963e21685659eb513e1c4d847f81d8a8f13f3 (diff) | |
download | linux-9274f9f895be561274ac13b37494abbc4243aebc.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'bridge_batmanadv_exports'
Linus Lüssing says:
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bridge: multicast snooping exports #2
Some people pointed out to me that it might be helpful to add stubs for
the newly added multicast exports. That way e.g. batman-adv should continue
to be compile and useable without having to have a kernel compiled
with bridge code in the future. This is what the first patch is supposed
to do.
The second patch adds a third multicast export for the bridge which
e.g. batman-adv is supposed to use, too, soon: Just like the bridge
disables its multicast snooping activities if no querier is present,
batman-adv needs to do the same if bridges are involved.
These three exports should be the final ones needed to marry the bridge
multicast snooping with the batman-adv multicast optimizations recently
added for the 3.15 kernel, allowing to use these optimzations in common
setups having a bridge on top of e.g. bat0, too. So far these bridged
setups would fall back to simple flooding through the batman-adv mesh
network for any multicast packet entering bat0.
More information about the batman-adv multicast optimizations currently
implemented can be found here:
http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Basic-multicast-optimizations
The integration on the batman-adv side could afterwards look like this,
for instance (now including the third export):
http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commitdiff/61e4f6af4b7a21ed4040f2e711d50c778e5b6d93?hp=6ae4281474675fbca5bedcf768972a32db586eb6
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