On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:43:11AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:42:15 +0200
Changes in v3:
- use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL()
This is not a sufficient header posting.
You must also describe at a high level what this patch series is doing, and why you are doing it.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it'd only be necessary for the v1 patchset. Going to change that from now on. Anyways, here it is (copied 'n' pasted):
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The first patch is simply a cosmetic patch. So far I (and maybe others too?) have been regularly confusing these two structs, therefore I'd suggest renaming them and therefore making the follow-up patches easier to understand and nicer to fit in.
The second patch fixes a minor issue, but probably not worth for stable.
On the other hand the first two patches are also preparations for the third and fourth patch:
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...
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