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Martin Hundebøll
2df5278b02 batman-adv: network coding - receive coded packets and decode them
When receiving a network coded packet, the decoding buffer is searched
for a packet to use for decoding. The source, destination, and crc32 from
the coded packet is used to identify the wanted packet. The decoded
packet is passed to the usual unicast receiver function, as had it never
been network coded.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:51 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
612d2b4fe0 batman-adv: network coding - save overheard and tx packets for decoding
To be able to decode a network coded packet, a node must already know
one of the two coded packets. This is done by buffering skbs before
transmission and buffering packets sniffed with promiscuous mode from
other hosts.

Packets are kept in a buffer similar to the one with forward-skbs: A
hash table, where each entry, which corresponds to a src-dst pair, has a
linked list packets.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:50 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
3c12de9a5c batman-adv: network coding - code and transmit packets if possible
Before adding forward-skbs to the coding buffer, the buffer is searched
for a potential coding opportunity. If one is found, the two packets are
network coded and transmitted right away. If not, the forward-skb is
added to the buffer.

Network coded packets are transmitted with information about the two
receivers and the two coded packets. The first receiver is given by the
MAC header, while the second is given in the payload/bat-header. The
second receiver uses promiscuous mode to receive the packet and check
the second destination.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:50 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
d353d8d4d9 batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code
Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <--- p2 ----  Node R                Node B
 4.  Node A                Node R  ---- p1 --->  Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <- p1 x p2 -  Node R  - p1 x p2 ->  Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

   Node A                  Node B

    |     \              /    |
    |      p1          p2     |
    |       \          /      |
    p1       > Node R <       p2
    |                         |
    |         /      \        |
    |    p1 x p2    p1 x p2   |
    v       /          \      v
           /            \
   Node C <              > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:48 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
0b87393146 batman-adv: update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-19 21:18:12 +08:00
Simon Wunderlich
5bc44dc845 batman-adv: postpone sysfs removal when unregistering
When processing the unregister notify for a hard interface, removing
the sysfs files may lead to a circular deadlock (rtnl mutex <->
s_active).

To overcome this problem, postpone the sysfs removal in a worker.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-19 21:18:12 +08:00
Marek Lindner
0c430d0d7b batman-adv: unbloat batadv_priv if debug is not enabled
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-12 20:58:23 +10:00
Antonio Quartulli
fa706554d6 batman-adv: don't compile the BLA switch if not requested
When the Bridge Loop Avoidance component is not compiled-in, its boolean switch
should be not compiled as well. This patch surrounds the switch with a proper
ifdef.

This behaviour was introduced by 9fd6b0615b5499b270d39a92b8790e206cf75833
("batman-adv: add bridge loop avoidance compile option")

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-12 20:58:22 +10:00
Linus Lüssing
02233e0c75 batman-adv: Do not add multicast MAC addresses to translation table
The current translation table mechanism is not suitable for multicast
addresses and we are currently flooding such frames anyway.

Therefore this patch prevents multicast MAC addresses being added to the
translation table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-12 20:58:19 +10:00
Jiri Pirko
7826d43f2d ethtool: fix drvinfo strings set in drivers
Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-06 21:06:31 -08:00
Jiri Pirko
15c6ff3bc0 net: remove unnecessary NET_ADDR_RANDOM "bitclean"
NET_ADDR_SET is set in dev_set_mac_address() no need to alter
dev->addr_assign_type value in drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-03 22:37:36 -08:00
Antonio Quartulli
af5d4f7737 batman-adv: use ETH_P_BATMAN
The ETH_P_BATMAN ethertype is now defined kernel-wide. Use it instead
of the private BATADV_ETH_P_BATMAN define.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2012-11-30 10:50:22 +01:00
David S. Miller
67f4efdce7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Minor line offset auto-merges.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-17 22:00:43 -05:00
Antonio Quartulli
74490f9691 batman-adv: process broadcast packets in BLA earlier
The logic in the BLA mechanism may decide to drop broadcast packets
because the node may still be in the setup phase. For this reason,
further broadcast processing like the early client detection mechanism
must be done only after the BLA check.

This patches moves the invocation to BLA before any other broadcast
processing.

This was introduced 30cfd02b60
("batman-adv: detect not yet announced clients")

Reported-by: Glen Page <glen.page@thet.net>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2012-11-16 09:36:54 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
7c1fd91da5 batman-adv: substitute tt_poss_change with a per-tt_entry flag
tt_poss_change is a node-wide flag which tells whether the node is in a roaming
state (a client recently moved to/away from it) in order to let it apply special
re-routing rules. However this flag does not give a clear idea of the current
state because it is not possible to understand *which client* is actually
involved in the roaming. For this reason a better approach has been chosen:
instead of using a node-wide variable, the roaming state is now given by a
per-tt_entry ROAM flag which, in case of packet coming through the node, tells
the node whether the real destination is in roaming state or not.

With this flag change, batadv_check_unicast_ttvn() has also been rearranged in
order to better fit the new re-routing logic and to be much more readable.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-14 21:00:35 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
4046b24afa batman-adv: Add get_ethtool_stats() support for DAT
Added additional counters for D.A.T.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:23 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
33af49ad8a batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add runtime switch
This patch adds a runtime switch that enables the user to turn the DAT feature
on or off at runtime

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:22 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
c384ea3ec9 batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages
In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and
a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions previously
implemented are used to store all the ARP entries belonging to the network in
order to provide a fast and unicast lookup instead of the classic broadcast
flooding mechanism.
Each node stores the entries it is responsible for (following the DHT rules) in
its soft_iface ARP table. This makes it possible to reuse the kernel data
structures and functions for ARP management.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:21 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
7cdcf6dddc batman-adv: add UNICAST_4ADDR packet type
The current unicast packet type does not contain the orig source address. This
patches add a new unicast packet (called UNICAST_4ADDR) which provides two new
fields: the originator source address and the subtype (the type of the data
contained in the packet payload). The former is useful to identify the node
which injected the packet into the network and the latter is useful to avoid
creating new unicast packet types in the future: a macro defining a new subtype
will be enough.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:18 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
4934ab951b batman-adv: don't allow ECTP traffic on batman-adv
We have seen this to break networks when used with bridge loop
avoidance. As we can't see any benefit from sending these ancient frames
via our mesh, we just drop them.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29 09:42:40 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
36c1d15311 batman-adv: Set special lockdep classes to avoid lockdep warning
Transmissions over batman-adv devices always start another nested transmission
over devices attached to the batman-adv interface. These devices usually use
the ethernet lockdep class for the tx_queue lock which is also set by default
for all batman-adv devices. Lockdep will detect a nested locking attempt of two
locks with the same class and warn about a possible deadlock.

This is the default and expected behavior and should not alarm the locking
correctness prove mechanism. Therefore, the locks for all netdevice specific tx
queues get a special batman-adv lock class to avoid a false positive for each
transmission.

Reported-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29 09:42:32 +01:00
David S. Miller
6a06e5e1bb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/team/team.c
	drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c
	net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
	net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
	net/ipv4/route.c
	net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c

The team, fib_frontend, route, and l2tp_netlink conflicts were simply
overlapping changes.

qmi_wwan and bat_iv_ogm were of the "use HEAD" variety.

With help from Antonio Quartulli.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
Def
40a3eb33e3 batman-adv: Fix change mac address of soft iface.
Into function interface_set_mac_addr, the function tt_local_add was
invoked before updating dev->dev_addr. The new MAC address was not
tagged as NoPurge.

Signed-off-by: Def <def@laposte.net>
2012-09-23 23:12:48 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
371351731e batman-adv: change interface_rx to get orig node
In order to understand  where a broadcast packet is coming from and use
this information to detect not yet announced clients, this patch modifies the
interface_rx() function by passing a new argument: the orig node
corresponding to the node that originated the received packet (if known).
This new argument if not NULL for broadcast packets only (other packets does not
have source field).

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:22 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
bbb1f90efb batman-adv: Don't break statements after assignment operator
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:20 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
807736f6e0 batman-adv: Split batadv_priv in sub-structures for features
The structure batadv_priv grows everytime a new feature is introduced. It gets
hard to find the parts of the struct that belongs to a specific feature. This
becomes even harder by the fact that not every feature uses a prefix in the
member name.

The variables for bridge loop avoidence, gateway handling, translation table
and visualization server are moved into separate structs that are included in
the bat_priv main struct.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:20:13 +02:00
Marek Lindner
1c9b0550f4 batman-adv: convert remaining packet counters to per_cpu_ptr() infrastructure
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:02:43 +02:00
David S. Miller
04c9f416e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c
	net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.h
	net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
	net/mac80211/mlme.c

With merge help from Antonio Quartulli (batman-adv) and
Stephen Rothwell (drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c).

The net/mac80211/mlme.c conflict seemed easy enough, accounting for a
conversion to some new tracing macros.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 23:56:33 -07:00
Simon Wunderlich
2d3f6ccc4e batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla
If the gateway functionality is used, some broadcast packets (DHCP
requests) may be transmitted as unicast packets. As the bridge loop
avoidance code now only considers the payload Ethernet destination,
it may drop the DHCP request for clients which are claimed by other
backbone gateways, because it falsely infers from the broadcast address
that the right backbone gateway should havehandled the broadcast.

Fix this by checking and delegating the batman-adv packet type used
for transmission.

Reported-by: Guido Iribarren <guidoiribarren@buenosaireslibre.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
2012-07-06 00:08:46 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
162d549c69 batman-adv: Don't leak information through uninitialized packet fields
The reserved fields in batman-adv packets are not set to a constant value. The
content of these memory regions is leaked unintentionally to the network.

This regression was introduced in 3b27ffb00f

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:24 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
b706b13b6c batman-adv: Remove bat_ prefix from bat_{debugfs, sysfs}.{c, h}
The "bat_" prefix in the source files implementing the batman-adv sysfs and
debugfs interface doesn't have a special meaning and are only used by these
files and files that implement the actual B.A.T.M.A.N. path finding algorithm.

The prefix is better suited to mark files that are used to implement the main
part of the path finding. All other files should not use it and therefore gets
renamed.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:22 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
56303d34a3 batman-adv: Prefix types structs with batadv_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:21 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9641269011 batman-adv: Prefix packet structs with batadv_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:21 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
39c75a51ed batman-adv: Prefix main enum with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
acd34afa89 batman-adv: Prefix packet enum with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
d69909d2fc batman-adv: Prefix types enum with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
cd646ab1e2 batman-adv: Prefix gateway enum with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:18 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
42d0b044b7 batman-adv: Prefix main defines with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-28 08:45:05 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
c11fdfaefa batman-adv: Prefix types defines with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-28 08:45:01 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
7e071c79a6 batman-adv: Prefix packet defines with BATADV_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-28 08:45:00 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
0294ca0d92 batman-adv: Prefix soft-interface local static functions with batadv_
All non-static symbols of batman-adv were prefixed with batadv_ to avoid
collisions with other symbols of the kernel. Other symbols of batman-adv
should use the same prefix to keep the naming scheme consistent.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-25 08:21:48 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
1eda58bfc5 batman-adv: Prefix main static inline functions with batadv_
All non-static symbols of batman-adv were prefixed with batadv_ to avoid
collisions with other symbols of the kernel. Other symbols of batman-adv
should use the same prefix to keep the naming scheme consistent.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-25 08:21:30 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
e5d89254bf batman-adv: Prefix hard-interface static inline functions with batadv_
All non-static symbols of batman-adv were prefixed with batadv_ to avoid
collisions with other symbols of the kernel. Other symbols of batman-adv
should use the same prefix to keep the naming scheme consistent.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-24 18:41:41 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9cfc7bd608 batman-adv: Reformat multiline comments to consistent style
batman-adv doesn't follow the style for multiline comments that David S. Miller
prefers. All comments should be reformatted to follow this consistent style to
make the code slightly more readable.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:33 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
3193e8fdfa batman-adv: Prefix main non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:32 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
88ed1e7772 batman-adv: Prefix unicast non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:30 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
08c36d3e8a batman-adv: Prefix translation-table non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:29 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
04b482a21a batman-adv: Prefix soft-interface non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:28 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9455e34cb2 batman-adv: Prefix send non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:26 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9563877ea5 batman-adv: Prefix hard-interface non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:20 +02:00