On Sunday 16 November 2014 09:50:43 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
Hm, I am now not sure if we switched topics again. Maybe you can enlighten us. Jay was not perfectly clear in his first mail what what he actually wanted to know. His second mail was refining his question to something like "tell me if I can deploy batman-adv from OpenWrt because I've read the term 'crash' somewhere". I am sure that your critism of OpenWrt is valid and a good point to make. But maybe we can make your answer a little bit more understandable (at least for me):
Linus just explained me some of the problems in batman-adv. I don't know about the bridge patches. These part can be explained by him.
You are saying something about "outstanding multicast issues and patches" without defining what it means in this mails.
At least some patches [1] completely went under the radar and just got applied to the repo in the maint [2, 3]. These are not part of any OpenWrt feed I know of.
Are there known missing patches/issues for batman-adv which would break "common setups"? If yes, why is multicast_mode enabled by default in batman-adv?
Yes, there are at least two known problems in batman-adv which are now fixed in maint and can be cherry picked by you. Otherwise these problems would enable multicast optimization when some nodes have bridges (which they shouldn't). This is a bug a not missing feature. So it is still valid that multicast_mode is enabled by default.
I would guess that you can either disable multicast_mode or apply the patches.
Are there "only" missing patches/issues in the bridge code (the ones you've linked to in the other mail [1]) of OpenWrt which breaks batman-adv with multicast_mode? If yes, why is multicast_mode enabled by default in batman-adv?
I cannot really answer this and will leave it to Linus.
Are there "only" missing patches/issues in the bridge code (the ones you've linked to in the other mail [1]) of OpenWrt which breaks batman-adv even without multicast_mode?
I cannot really answer this and will leave it to Linus.
Are these missing patches/issues only about bridges + multicast and not about batman-adv?
There are at least some batman-adv unrelated problems in OpenWrt with multicast and bridges [4].
Kind regards, Sven
[1] https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2014-October/012486.html [2] http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/33fdd2cb9fe20d90bc6bff369c9b5... [3] http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/9e9d48e829cd93ffbb5ced323caf0... [4] https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2014-November/012554.html