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authorSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2019-03-03 20:02:55 +0300
committerSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2019-03-25 11:31:35 +0300
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batman-adv: Drop documentation about debugfs files
The debugfs files were marked as deprecated by commit 00caf6a2b318 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality as deprecated"). The documentation should not advertise its usage anymore and instead promote the generic netlink family and a userspace tool to access it. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst29
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
index 245fb6c0ab6f..1b9ff47c0976 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
@@ -74,23 +74,9 @@ All mesh wide settings can be found in batman's own interface folder::
bridge_loop_avoidance gw_sel_class network_coding
distributed_arp_table hop_penalty orig_interval
-There is a special folder for debugging information::
-
- $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/
- bla_backbone_table log neighbors transtable_local
- bla_claim_table mcast_flags originators
- dat_cache nc socket
- gateways nc_nodes transtable_global
-
-Some of the files contain all sort of status information regarding the mesh
-network. For example, you can view the table of originators (mesh
-participants) with::
-
- $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/originators
-
-Other files allow to change batman's behaviour to better fit your requirements.
-For instance, you can check the current originator interval (value in
-milliseconds which determines how often batman sends its broadcast packets)::
+Some files allow to change batman-adv's behaviour to better fit your
+requirements. For instance, you can check the current originator interval (value
+in milliseconds which determines how often batman sends its broadcast packets)::
$ cat /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh/orig_interval
1000
@@ -103,6 +89,10 @@ In very mobile scenarios, you might want to adjust the originator interval to a
lower value. This will make the mesh more responsive to topology changes, but
will also increase the overhead.
+Information about the current state can be accessed via the batadv generic
+netlink family. batctl provides human readable version via its debug tables
+subcommands.
+
Usage
=====
@@ -147,10 +137,9 @@ batman-adv module. When building batman-adv as part of kernel, use "make
menuconfig" and enable the option ``B.A.T.M.A.N. debugging``
(``CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG=y``).
-Those additional debug messages can be accessed using a special file in
-debugfs::
+Those additional debug messages can be accessed using the perf infrastructure::
- $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log
+ $ trace-cmd stream -e batadv:batadv_dbg
The additional debug output is by default disabled. It can be enabled during
run time. Following log_levels are defined: