On Tuesday 29 March 2016 10:37:17 Adrian Reyer wrote: [...]
I advocate an admin-settable flag for batman, defaulting to the current behaviour. Nothing breaks that way, only batman needs to be adjusted and the patch already exists and is tested. Admins can set the flag if they think they have use for it and they do it knowingly.
We still need at least one person interested in this patch who rebases the patch and resubmit its with a convincing commit message.
It would also be interesting if it should be a simple flag or some if exporting the num_bcasts via $something would be sufficient. Or if the num_bcasts should be split into num_bcasts_otherif and num_bcasts_sameif and then exported.
Just keep in mind that this "flag" may has to be kept there until the end of time. So if there is a need for a new setting then it should at least be discussed if this is done right and not that someone else needs to add additional things shortly after it reached the Linux kernel.
Kind regards, Sven