From: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:58:58 +0200
These two patches are exporting functionality 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-optimizati...
The integration on the batman-adv side could afterwards look like this, for instance:
http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commitdiff/576b59dd3e34737c702e548b2...
I'd really like to see some feedback from bridge folks before applying this, thanks.