It is not necessary to include the header for the struct definition for an
"extern " declaration. It can simply be dropped from the headers to reduce
the number of includes the preprocessor has to process. If needed, it can
be added to the actual C source file.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
The Network Coding feature, introduced in 2013, is based on the master
thesis "Inter-Flow Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks". It relies on
the assumption that neighboring mesh nodes can reliably overhear each
other's transmissions in promiscuous mode, allowing packets to be combined
to reduce forwarding overhead.
This assumption no longer holds for modern wireless mesh networks, which
are heterogeneous and make overhearing increasingly unreliable. Factors
such as multiple spatial streams, varying data rates, beamforming, and
OFDMA all prevent nodes from consistently overhearing each other. The current
implementation in batman-adv is not able to detect these conditions and would
require a more complex layer beyond its neighbor discovery process to do so.
In addition, the feature has been unmaintained for years and is discouraged
for use. None of the current maintainers have the required test
setup to verify its functionality, and known issues remain in its data
structures (reference counting, RCU usage, and cleanup handling). Its
continued presence also blocks necessary refactoring of the core originator
infrastructure.
Remove this obsolete and unmaintained feature.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
By passing the hard_iface to netdev_master_upper_dev_link() as private
data, we can iterate over hardifs of a mesh interface more efficiently
using netdev_for_each_lower_private*() (instead of iterating over the
global hardif list). In addition, this will enable resolving a hardif
from its netdev using netdev_lower_dev_get_private() and getting rid of
the global list altogether in the following patches.
A similar approach can be seen in the bonding driver.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Since commit 69c7be1b90 ("rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct"),
.newlink() doesn't use the struct net parameter. A type definition from
net_namespace.h is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
The batman-adv mesh-iface is flagged with IFF_NO_QUEUE,
therefore there is no reason to start/stop any queue in
ndo_open/close.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@mandelbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Simon Wunderlich says:
====================
This feature/cleanup patchset includes the following patches:
- bump version strings, by Simon Wunderlich
- drop batadv_priv_debug_log struct, by Sven Eckelmann
- adopt netdev_hold() / netdev_put(), by Eric Dumazet
- add support for jumbo frames, by Sven Eckelmann
- use consistent name for mesh interface, by Sven Eckelmann
- cleanup B.A.T.M.A.N. IV OGM aggregation handling,
by Sven Eckelmann (4 patches)
- add missing newlines for log macros, by Sven Eckelmann
* tag 'batadv-next-pullrequest-20250313' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge:
batman-adv: add missing newlines for log macros
batman-adv: Limit aggregation size to outgoing MTU
batman-adv: Use actual packet count for aggregated packets
batman-adv: Switch to bitmap helper for aggregation handling
batman-adv: Limit number of aggregated packets directly
batman-adv: Use consistent name for mesh interface
batman-adv: Add support for jumbo frames
batman-adv: adopt netdev_hold() / netdev_put()
batman-adv: Drop batadv_priv_debug_log struct
batman-adv: Start new development cycle
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250313164519.72808-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
The way how the virtual interface is called inside the batman-adv source
code is not consistent. The genl headers call it meshif and the rest of the
code calls is (mostly) softif.
The genl definitions cannot be touched because they are part of the UAPI.
But the rest of the batman-adv code can be touched to have a consistent
name again.
The bulk of the renaming was done using
sed -i -e 's/soft\(-\|\_\| \|\)i\([nf]\)/mesh\1i\2/g' \
-e 's/SOFT\(-\|\_\| \|\)I\([NF]\)/MESH\1I\2/g'
and then it was adjusted slightly when proofreading the changes.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
