1. 10 Jul, 2014 4 commits
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  3. 08 Jul, 2014 2 commits
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'bridge_batmanadv_exports' · 9274f9f8
      David S. Miller authored
      Linus Lüssing says:
      
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      bridge: multicast snooping exports #2
      
      Some people pointed out to me that it might be helpful to add stubs for
      the newly added multicast exports. That way e.g. batman-adv should continue
      to be compile and useable without having to have a kernel compiled
      with bridge code in the future. This is what the first patch is supposed
      to do.
      
      The second patch adds a third multicast export for the bridge which
      e.g. batman-adv is supposed to use, too, soon: Just like the bridge
      disables its multicast snooping activities if no querier is present,
      batman-adv needs to do the same if bridges are involved.
      
      These three exports should be the final ones 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-optimizations
      
      The integration on the batman-adv side could afterwards look like this,
      for instance (now including the third export):
      
      http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commitdiff/61e4f6af4b7a21ed4040f2e711d50c778e5b6d93?hp=6ae4281474675fbca5bedcf768972a32db586eb6
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      9274f9f8
    • Linus Lüssing's avatar
      bridge: export knowledge about the presence of IGMP/MLD queriers · c34963e2
      Linus Lüssing authored
      With this patch other modules are able to ask the bridge whether an
      IGMP or MLD querier exists on the according, bridged link layer.
      
      Multicast snooping can only be performed if a valid, selected querier
      exists on a link.
      
      Just like the bridge only enables its multicast snooping if a querier
      exists, e.g. batman-adv too can only activate its multicast
      snooping in bridged scenarios if a querier is present.
      
      For instance this export avoids having to reimplement IGMP/MLD
      querier message snooping and parsing in e.g. batman-adv, when
      multicast optimizations for bridged scenarios are added in the
      future.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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