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2021-08-08batman-adv: Drop NULL check before dropping referencesSven Eckelmann
The check if a batman-adv related object is NULL or not is now directly in the batadv_*_put functions. It is not needed anymore to perform this check outside these function: The changes were generated using a coccinelle semantic patch: @@ expression E; @@ - if (likely(E != NULL)) ( batadv_backbone_gw_put | batadv_claim_put | batadv_dat_entry_put | batadv_gw_node_put | batadv_hardif_neigh_put | batadv_hardif_put | batadv_nc_node_put | batadv_nc_path_put | batadv_neigh_ifinfo_put | batadv_neigh_node_put | batadv_orig_ifinfo_put | batadv_orig_node_put | batadv_orig_node_vlan_put | batadv_softif_vlan_put | batadv_tp_vars_put | batadv_tt_global_entry_put | batadv_tt_local_entry_put | batadv_tt_orig_list_entry_put | batadv_tt_req_node_put | batadv_tvlv_container_put | batadv_tvlv_handler_put )(E); Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2021-02-06batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright infoSven Eckelmann
The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next) as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code mentioned in the MAINTAINERS "BATMAN ADVANCED" section was handled as a single entity regarding the publishing year. This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright holder) publishing information inside several files. But since the simple "update copyright year" commit (without other changes) in the file was not well received in the upstream kernel, the option to not have a copyright year (for initial and last publication) in the files are chosen instead. More detailed information about the years can still be retrieved from the SCM system. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Acked-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-12-04batman-adv: Add new include for min/max helpersSven Eckelmann
The commit b296a6d53339 ("kernel.h: split out min()/max() et al. helpers") moved the min/max helper functionality from kernel.h to minmax.h. Adjust the kernel code accordingly to avoid fragile indirect includes. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-08-18batman-adv: Migrate to linux/prandom.hSven Eckelmann
The commit c0842fbc1b18 ("random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit definitions to prandom.h") introduced a new header for the pseudo random functions from (previously) linux/random.h. One future goal of the prandom.h change is to make code to switch just the new header file and to avoid the implicit include. This would allow the removal of the implicit include from random.h Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2020-06-26batman-adv: Fix typos and grammar in documentationSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-05-26batman-adv: Revert "disable ethtool link speed detection when auto ↵Sven Eckelmann
negotiation off" The commit 8c46fcd78308 ("batman-adv: disable ethtool link speed detection when auto negotiation off") disabled the usage of ethtool's link_ksetting when auto negotation was enabled due to invalid values when used with tun/tap virtual net_devices. According to the patch, automatic measurements should be used for these kind of interfaces. But there are major flaws with this argumentation: * automatic measurements are not implemented * auto negotiation has nothing to do with the validity of the retrieved values The first point has to be fixed by a longer patch series. The "validity" part of the second point must be addressed in the same patch series by dropping the usage of ethtool's link_ksetting (thus always doing automatic measurements over ethernet). Drop the patch again to have more default values for various net_device types/configurations. The user can still overwrite them using the batadv_hardif's BATADV_ATTR_THROUGHPUT_OVERRIDE. Reported-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-04-21batman-adv: Utilize prandom_u32_max for random [0, max) valuesSven Eckelmann
The kernel provides a function to create random values from 0 - (max-1) since commit f337db64af05 ("random32: add prandom_u32_max and convert open coded users"). Simply use this function to replace code sections which use prandom_u32 and a handcrafted method to map it to the correct range. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2020-01-01batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-12-09batman-adv: ELP - use wifi tx bitrate as fallback throughputRené Treffer
Some wifi drivers (e.g. ath10k) provide per-station rx/tx values but no estimated throughput. Setting a better estimate than the default 1 MBit makes these devices work well with B.A.T.M.A.N. V. Signed-off-by: René Treffer <treffer@measite.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-04-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Minor comment merge conflict in mlx5. Staging driver has a fixup due to the skb->xmit_more changes in 'net-next', but was removed in 'net'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-03-25batman-adv: Drop license boilerplateSven Eckelmann
All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369a4 ("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the required information about the license conditions can be found in LICENSES/. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-03-25batman-adv: fix warning in function batadv_v_elp_get_throughputAnders Roxell
When CONFIG_CFG80211 isn't enabled the compiler correcly warns about 'sinfo.pertid' may be unused. It can also happen for other error conditions that it not warn about. net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c: In function ‘batadv_v_elp_get_throughput.isra.0’: include/net/cfg80211.h:6370:13: warning: ‘sinfo.pertid’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] kfree(sinfo->pertid); ~~~~~^~~~~~~~ Rework so that we only release '&sinfo' if cfg80211_get_station returns zero. Fixes: 7d652669b61d ("batman-adv: release station info tidstats") Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-02-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
An ipvlan bug fix in 'net' conflicted with the abstraction away of the IPV6 specific support in 'net-next'. Similarly, a bug fix for mlx5 in 'net' conflicted with the flow action conversion in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-01-25batman-adv: release station info tidstatsFelix Fietkau
With the addition of TXQ stats in the per-tid statistics the struct station_info grew significantly. This resulted in stack size warnings due to the structure itself being above the limit for the warnings. To work around this, the TID array was allocated dynamically. Also a function to free this content was introduced with commit 7ea3e110f2f8 ("cfg80211: release station info tidstats where needed") but the necessary changes were not provided for batman-adv's B.A.T.M.A.N. V implementation. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Fixes: 8689c051a201 ("cfg80211: dynamically allocate per-tid stats for station info") [sven@narfation.org: add commit message] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-01-04batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2019Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-11-12batman-adv: Use explicit tvlv padding for ELP packetsSven Eckelmann
The announcement messages of batman-adv COMPAT_VERSION 15 have the possibility to announce additional information via a dynamic TVLV part. This part is optional for the ELP packets and currently not parsed by the Linux implementation. Still out-of-tree versions are using it to transport things like neighbor hashes to optimize the rebroadcast behavior. Since the ELP broadcast packets are smaller than the minimal ethernet packet, it often has to be padded. This is often done (as specified in RFC894) with octets of zero and thus work perfectly fine with the TVLV part (making it a zero length and thus empty). But not all ethernet compatible hardware seems to follow this advice. To avoid ambiguous situations when parsing the TVLV header, just force the 4 bytes (TVLV length + padding) after the required ELP header to zero. Fixes: d6f94d91f766 ("batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure") Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-09-07batman-adv: fix hardif_neigh refcount on queue_work() failureMarek Lindner
The hardif_neigh refcounter is to be decreased by the queued work and currently is never decreased if the queue_work() call fails. Fix by checking the queue_work() return value and decrease refcount if necessary. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-09-06batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leakSven Eckelmann
The probe ELPs for WiFi interfaces are expanded to contain at least BATADV_ELP_MIN_PROBE_SIZE bytes. This is usually a lot more than the number of bytes which the template ELP packet requires. These extra padding bytes were not initialized and thus could contain data which were previously stored at the same location. It is therefore required to set it to some predefined or random values to avoid leaking private information from the system transmitting these kind of packets. Fixes: e4623c913508 ("batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-05-14batman-adv: disable ethtool link speed detection when auto negotiation offMarek Lindner
Virtual interface drivers such as tun / tap interfaces, VLAN, etc tend to initialize the interface throughput with some value for the sake of having a throughput number to export via ethtool. This exported throughput leaves batman-adv to conclude the interface throughput is genuine (reflecting reality), thus no measurements are necessary. Based on the observation that those interface types also tend to set the link auto-negotiation to 'off', batman-adv shall check this setting to differentiate between genuine link throughput information and placeholders installed by virtual interfaces. The "default throughput" setting exported via sysfs still allows to configure the batman-adv throughput for the interface, thus disabling the measurements. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-02-26batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2018Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-12-21batman-adv: Convert packet.h to uapi headerSven Eckelmann
The header file is used by different userspace programs to inject packets or to decode sniffed packets. It should therefore be available to them as userspace header. Also other components in the kernel (like the flow dissector) require access to the packet definitions to be able to decode ETH_P_BATMAN ethernet packets. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-15batman-adv: Use parentheses in function kernel-docSven Eckelmann
The documentation describing kernel-doc comments for functions ("How to format kernel-doc comments") uses parentheses at the end of the function name. Using this format allows to use a consistent style when adding documentation to a function and when referencing this function in a different kernel-doc section. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-12-15batman-adv: include gfp.h for GFP_* definesSven Eckelmann
The linux/gfp.h provides the GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL define. It should therefore be included instead of linux/fs.h. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-12-15batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright headerSven Eckelmann
The "Linux kernel licensing rules" require that each file has a SPDX license identifier as first line (and sometimes as second line). The FSFE REUSE practices [1] would also require the same tags but have no restrictions on the placement in the source file. Using the "Linux kernel licensing rules" is therefore also fulfilling the FSFE REUSE practices requirements at the same time. [1] https://reuse.software/practices/ Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-09-28batman-adv: Remove unnecessary parenthesesSven Eckelmann
checkpatch introduced with commit 63b7c73ec86b ("checkpatch: add --strict check for ifs with unnecessary parentheses") an additional test which identifies some unnecessary parentheses. Remove these unnecessary parentheses to avoid the warnings and to unify the coding style slightly more. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-06-16networking: convert many more places to skb_put_zero()Johannes Berg
There were many places that my previous spatch didn't find, as pointed out by yuan linyu in various patches. The following spatch found many more and also removes the now unnecessary casts: @@ identifier p, p2; expression len; expression skb; type t, t2; @@ ( -p = skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len); | -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len); ) ... when != p ( p2 = (t2)p; -memset(p2, 0, len); | -memset(p, 0, len); ) @@ type t, t2; identifier p, p2; expression skb; @@ t *p; ... ( -p = skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t)); | -p = (t *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(t)); +p = skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t)); ) ... when != p ( p2 = (t2)p; -memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p)); | -memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); ) @@ expression skb, len; @@ -memset(skb_put(skb, len), 0, len); +skb_put_zero(skb, len); Apply it to the tree (with one manual fixup to keep the comment in vxlan.c, which spatch removed.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-06-13batman-adv: Accept only filled wifi station infoSven Eckelmann
The wifi driver can decide to not provide parts of the station info. For example, the expected throughput of the station can be omitted when the used rate control doesn't provide this kind of information. The B.A.T.M.A.N. V implementation must therefore check the filled bitfield before it tries to access the expected_throughput of the returned station_info. Reported-by: Alvaro Antelo <alvaro.antelo@gmail.com> Fixes: c833484e5f38 ("batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughput") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Reviewed-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-06-13batman-adv: Use default throughput value on cfg80211 errorSven Eckelmann
A wifi interface should never be handled like an ethernet devices. The parser of the cfg80211 output must therefore skip the ethtool code when cfg80211_get_station returned an error. Fixes: f44a3ae9a281 ("batman-adv: refactor wifi interface detection") Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Reviewed-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-01-26batman-adv: update copyright years for 2017Sven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-11-08batman-adv: retrieve B.A.T.M.A.N. V WiFi neighbor stats from real interfaceMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> [sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: re-add batadv_get_real_netdev to take rtnl semaphore for batadv_get_real_netdevice] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-11-08batman-adv: Cache the type of wifi device for each hardifSven Eckelmann
batman-adv is requiring the type of wifi device in different contexts. Some of them can take the rtnl semaphore and some of them already have the semaphore taken. But even others don't allow that the semaphore will be taken. The data has to be retrieved when the hardif is added to batman-adv because some of the wifi information for an hardif will only be available with rtnl lock. It can then be cached in the batadv_hard_iface and the functions is_wifi_netdev and is_cfg80211_netdev can just compare the correct bits without imposing extra locking requirements. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-11-08batman-adv: refactor wifi interface detectionMarek Lindner
The ELP protocol requires cfg80211 to auto-detect the WiFi througput to a given neighbor. Use batadv_is_cfg80211_netdev() to determine whether or not an interface is eligible. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-11-08batman-adv: Consume skb in receive handlersSven Eckelmann
Receiving functions in Linux consume the supplied skbuff. Doing the same in the batadv_rx_handler functions makes the behavior more similar to the rest of the Linux network code. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-26batman-adv: fix elp packet data reservationLinus Lüssing
The skb_reserve() call only reserved headroom for the mac header, but not the elp packet header itself. Fixing this by using skb_put()'ing towards the skb tail instead of skb_push()'ing towards the skb head. Fixes: d6f94d91f766 ("batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04batman-adv: split routing API data structure in subobjectsAntonio Quartulli
The routing API data structure contains several function pointers that can easily be grouped together based on the component they work with. Split the API in subobjects in order to improve definition readability. At the same time, remove the "bat_" prefix from the API object and its fields names. These are batman-adv private structs and there is no need to always prepend such prefix, which only makes function invocations much much longer. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functionsSven Eckelmann
There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them easier to find. Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: init ELP tweaking options only onceMarek Lindner
The ELP interval and throughput override interface settings are initialized with default settings on every time an interface is added to a mesh. This patch prevents this behavior by moving the configuration init to the interface detection routine which runs only once per interface. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> [a@unstable.cc: move initialization to batadv_v_hardif_init] Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30batman-adv: refactor batadv_neigh_node_* functions to follow common styleMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-05-18batman-adv: initialize ELP orig address on secondary interfacesMarek Lindner
This fix prevents nodes to wrongly create a 00:00:00:00:00:00 originator which can potentially interfere with the rest of the neighbor statistics. Fixes: d6f94d91f766 ("batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-29batman-adv: ELP - send unicast ELP packets for throughput samplingAntonio Quartulli
In case of an unused wireless link, the mac80211 throughput estimation won't get updated further. Consequently, the reported throughput metric will become obsolete. With this patch unicast sampling is introduced by periodically sending unicast ELP packets to each neighbor on idle WiFi links. These sampling packets will fill an entire frame, so that the measurement is as reliable as possible Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughputAntonio Quartulli
In case of wireless interface retrieve the throughput by querying cfg80211. To perform this call a separate work must be scheduled because the function may sleep and this is not allowed within an RCU protected context (RCU in this case is used to iterate over all the neighbours). Use ethtool to retrieve information about an Ethernet link like HALF/FULL_DUPLEX and advertised bandwidth (e.g. 100/10Mbps). The metric is updated each time a new ELP packet is sent, this way it is possible to timely react to a metric variation which can imply (for example) a neighbour disconnection. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29batman-adv: keep track of when unicast packets are sentAntonio Quartulli
To enable ELP to send probing packets over wireless links only if needed, batman-adv must keep track of the last time it sent a unicast packet towards every neighbour. For this purpose a 2 main changes are introduced: 1) a new member of the elp_neigh_node structure stores the last time a unicast packet was sent towards this neighbour; 2) a wrapper function for sending unicast packets is implemented. This function will simply update the member describe din point 1) and then forward the packet to the real sending routine. Point 2) implies that any code-path leading to a unicast sending now has to use the new wrapper. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29batman-adv: OGMv2 - implement originators logicAntonio Quartulli
Add the support for recognising new originators in the network and rebroadcast their OGMs. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29batman-adv: ELP - creating neighbor structuresLinus Luessing
Initially developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-29batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructureLinus Luessing
The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality information through the whole mesh. This procedure is summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in details in the RFC draft published in 2008. This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it also bears some drawbacks: * Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss, therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow a fast reaction on flaky connections. Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce overhead. * It generally is more desirable to detect local link quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of the mesh does not need to care about local link quality changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time. As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these link quality information and determining the overall path transmit qualities. Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>