Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman as a kernel module

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Mitar wrote:

Hi!

What are the reasons (except for performance) of Batman being a kernel module? Is there a way for running it in user-space? We have some servers where we get donated bandwidth, but as people are running also other stuff on those servers they do not really like adding kernel modules and probably even rebooting servers for upgrading to newer Batman versions.

Why not using the out-of-the-tree batman-adv package? You can compile the latest batman-adv module against the running kernel (it must be >=2.6.29). You can find more details in the README.external file that you will find in the batman-adv out-of-the-tree package.

Cheers,