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Sven Eckelmann 1e2c2a4fe4 batman-adv: Add required includes to all files
The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is
happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used.
This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the
knowledge about the right order of local includes.

Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly.
Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is
problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on
config settings and may not be stable in the future.

The order for include blocks are:

 * primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file)
 * global linux headers
 * required local headers
 * extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations

The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h.
This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must
therefore build together with userspace applications. The header
linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h
conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The
maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus
these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have
to include main.h to work correctly.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07 17:07:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 9f6446c7f9 batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:35 +02:00
Nicolas Dichtel a54acb3a6f dev: introduce dev_get_iflink()
The goal of this patch is to prepare the removal of the iflink field. It
introduces a new ndo function, which will be implemented by virtual interfaces.

There is no functional change into this patch. All readers of iflink field
now call dev_get_iflink().

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-02 14:04:59 -04:00
Cong Wang b6ed549860 batman: fix a bogus warning from batadv_is_on_batman_iface()
batman tries to search dev->iflink to check if it's a batman interface,
but ->iflink could be 0, which is not a valid ifindex. It should just
avoid iflink == 0 case.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-22 17:23:00 -04:00
Antonio Quartulli 930cd6e46e batman-adv: fix soft-interface MTU computation
The current MTU computation always returns a value
smaller than 1500bytes even if the real interfaces
have an MTU large enough to compensate the batman-adv
overhead.

Fix the computation by properly returning the highest
admitted value.

Introduced by a19d3d85e1
("batman-adv: limit local translation table max size")

Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-02-17 17:17:00 +01:00
Ying Xue 16b77695ed batman-adv: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface
The following call chains indicate that batadv_is_on_batman_iface()
is always under rtnl_lock protection as call_netdevice_notifier()
is protected by rtnl_lock. So if __dev_get_by_index() rather than
dev_get_by_index() is used to find interface handler in it, this
would help us avoid to change interface reference counter.

call_netdevice_notifier()
  batadv_hard_if_event()
    batadv_hardif_add_interface()
      batadv_is_valid_iface()
        batadv_is_on_batman_iface()

Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-14 18:50:47 -08:00
Simon Wunderlich e19f9759ed batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:19 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 5bc7c1eb44 batman-adv: add debugfs structure for information per interface
To show information per interface, add a debugfs hardif structure
similar to the system in sysfs. Hard interface folders will be created
in "$debugfs/batman-adv/". Files are not yet added.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:15 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli ebf38fb7ab batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:39 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli 0c69aecc5b batman-adv: invoke dev_get_by_index() outside of is_wifi_iface()
Upcoming changes need to perform other checks on the
incoming net_device struct.

To avoid performing dev_get_by_index() for each and every
check, it is better to move it outside of is_wifi_iface()
and search the netdev object once only.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-10-23 17:03:44 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 8257f55ae2 batman-adv: send GW_DEL event in case of soft-iface destruction
In case of soft_iface destruction send a GW DEL event to
userspace so that applications which are listening for GW
events are informed about the lost of connectivity and can
react accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-10-23 17:03:44 +02:00
Marek Lindner a19d3d85e1 batman-adv: limit local translation table max size
The local translation table size is limited by what can be
transferred from one node to another via a full table request.

The number of entries fitting into a full table request depend
on whether the fragmentation is enabled or not. Therefore this
patch introduces a max table size check and refuses to add
more local clients when that size is reached. Moreover, if the
max full table packet size changes (MTU change or fragmentation
is disabled) the local table is downsized instantaneously.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-10-23 17:03:43 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 5d2c05b213 batman-adv: add per VLAN interface attribute framework
Since batman-adv is now fully VLAN-aware, a proper framework
able to handle per-vlan-interface attributes is needed.

Those attributes will affect the associated VLAN interface
only, rather than the real soft_iface (which would result
in every vlan interface having the same attribute
configuration).

To make the code simpler and easier to extend, attributes
associated to the standalone soft_iface are now treated
like belonging to yet another vlan having a special vid.
This vid is different from the others because it is made up
by all zeros and the VLAN_HAS_TAG bit is not set.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 17:28:08 +02:00
Marek Lindner 411d6ed93a batman-adv: consider network coding overhead when calculating required mtu
The module prints a warning when the MTU on the hard interface is too
small to transfer payload traffic without fragmentation. The required
MTU is calculated based on the encapsulation header size. If network
coding is compild into the module its header size is taken into
account as well.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 17:17:09 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 293e93385e batman-adv: use htons when possible
When comparing a network ordered value with a constant, it
is better to convert the constant at compile time by means
of htons() instead of converting the value at runtime using
ntohs().

This refactoring may slightly improve the code performance.

Moreover substitute __constant_htons() with htons() since
the latter increase readability and it is smart enough to be
as efficient as the former

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
2013-10-12 11:59:23 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll f097e25dbe batman-adv: Remove old fragmentation code
Remove the existing fragmentation code before adding the new version
and delete unicast.{h,c}.

batadv_unicast_send_skb() is moved to send.c and renamed to
batadv_send_skb_unicast().

fragmentation entry in sysfs (bat_priv->fragmentation) is kept for use in
the new fragmentation code.

BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet type is renamed to BATADV_FRAG for use in the
new fragmentation code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:33 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 9f4980e68b batman-adv: remove vis functionality
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:32 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 7db3fc291b batman-adv: don't initialise batman_iv private members in hard-interface.c
hard-interface.c has to do not contain any routing algorithm
specific code.

Allocate the hard-interface with kzalloc() and remove any
useless and algorithm specific member initialisation

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-05-29 02:44:54 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer caf65bfcc5 batman-adv: send each broadcast only once on non-wireless interfaces
While it makes sense to send each broadcast thrice on 802.11 (WLAN) interfaces
as broadcasts are often unreliable on these, there is no reason to do so on
other interface types.

The increased the overhead can be harmful on low-bandwidth links like VPN
connections over slow internet lines, therefore it is better to reduce the
number of broadcast packets sent on non-wireless links to one.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-29 02:44:53 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer de68d1003d batman-adv: split batadv_is_wifi_iface() into two functions
Previously batadv_is_wifi_iface() did two things at once: looking up a
net_device from an interface index, and determining if it is a wifi device.

The second part is useful itself when the caller already has a net_device
reference.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-29 02:44:53 +02:00
Jiri Pirko 351638e7de net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier
So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>

v2->v3: fix typo on simeth
	shortened dev_getter
	shortened notifier_info struct name
v1->v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-28 13:11:01 -07:00
Antonio Quartulli cb4b0d4864 batman-adv: free an hard-interface before adding it
When adding a new hard interface (e.g. wlan0) to a soft interface (e.g. bat0)
and the former is already enslaved in another virtual interface (e.g. a software
bridge) batman-adv has to free it first and then continue with the adding
mechanism.

In this way the behaviour becomes consistent with what "ip link set master"
does. At the moment batman-adv enslaves the hard interface without checking for
the master device, possibly causing strange behaviours which are never wanted by
the users.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-03-27 10:29:53 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann 3dbd550b8b batman-adv: Allow to modify slaves of soft-interfaces through rntl_link
The sysfs configuration interface of batman-adv to add/remove slaves of an
soft-iface is not deadlock free and doesn't follow the currently common way to
modify slaves of an interface.

An additional configuration interface though rtnl_link is introduced which
provides easy device adding/removing with tools like "ip":
$ ip link set dev eth0 master bat0
$ ip link set dev eth0 nomaster

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:29:52 +01:00
Marek Lindner e07932ae6f batman-adv: rename batadv_softif_destroy to reflect sysfs use case
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
CC: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:33 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann a15fd3612d batman-adv: Don't always delete softif when last slave was removed
batman-adv has an unusual way to manage softinterfaces. These will be created
automatically when a user writes to the batman-adv/mesh_iface file in sysfs and
removed when no slave device exists anymore.

This behaviour cannot be changed without breaking compatibility with existing
code. Instead other interfaces should be able to slightly reduce this behaviour
and provide a more common reaction to a removal of a slave interface.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:32 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann 37130293fd batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init
The initialization of an net_device object should be done in the
init/constructor function and not from the outside after the register_netdevice
was done to avoid race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:31 +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
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
Antonio Quartulli b7eddd0b39 batman-adv: prevent using any virtual device created on batman-adv as hard-interface
Any virtual device created on top of a batman-adv mesh interface must be
prevented to be used to create a new mesh network (this would lead to an
unwanted batman-over-batman configuration)

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-14 21:00:33 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli 785ea11441 batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions
Add all the relevant functions in order to manage a Distributed Hash Table over
the B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv network. It will later be used to store several ARP entries
and implement DAT (Distributed ARP Table)

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:19 +01:00
Marek Lindner 14511519d4 batman-adv: split hard_iface struct for each routing protocol
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29 09:39:05 +01:00
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
Simon Wunderlich 624463079e batman-adv: check batadv_orig_hash_add_if() return code
If this call fails, some of the orig_nodes spaces may have been
resized for the increased number of interface, and some may not.
If we would just continue with the larger number of interfaces,
this would lead to access to not allocated memory later.

We better check the return code, and don't add the interface if
no memory is available. OTOH, keeping some of the orig_nodes
with too much memory allocated should hurt no one (except for
a few too many bytes allocated).

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23 14:02:46 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 0aca2369b1 batman-adv: Fix alignment after opened parentheses
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:23 +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 e9a4f295eb batman-adv: Prefix hard-interface 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 3e34819e0e batman-adv: Prefix remaining function like macros with batadv_
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-28 08:44:48 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 18a1cb6ee0 batman-adv: Prefix hard-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 08:21:40 +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 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