kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h, branch master

batman-adv: Use consistent name for mesh interface

2025-02-22T10:36:22+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Check ptr for NULL before reducing its refcnt

2021-08-08T18:21:40+00:00

The commit b37a46683739 ("netdevice: add the case if dev is NULL") changed the way how the NULL check for net_devices have to be handled when trying to reduce its reference counter. Before this commit, it was the responsibility of the caller to check whether the object is NULL or not. But it was changed to behave more like kfree. Now the callee has to handle the NULL-case. The batman-adv code was scanned via cocinelle for similar places. These were changed to use the paradigm @@ identifier E, T, R, C; identifier put; @@ void put(struct T *E) { + if (!E) + return; kref_put(&E->C, R); } Functions which were used in other sources files were moved to the header to allow the compiler to inline the NULL check and the kref_put call. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop implicit creation of batadv net_devices

2021-06-02T20:25:45+00:00

The sysfs code in batman-adv was could create a new batadv interfaces on demand when a string (interface name) was written to the batman-adv/mesh_iface file. But the code no longer exists in the current batman-adv codebase. The helper code to implement this behavior must be considered as unused and can be dropped. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

2021-02-06T08:22:10+00:00

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 This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright holder) publishing information inside several files.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 Acked-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support

2020-12-04T07:40:52+00:00

The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit 42cdd521487f ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and scheduled for removal in 2021. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

2019-12-31T23:00:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Use includes instead of fwdecls

2019-05-25T10:59:53+00:00

While it can be slightly beneficial for the build performance to use forward declarations instead of includes, the handling of them together with changes in the included headers makes it unnecessary complicated and fragile. Just replace them with actual includes since some parts (hwmon, ..) of the kernel even request avoidance of forward declarations and net/ is mostly not using them in *.c file. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

2019-03-25T08:31:35+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

2019-01-04T10:04:24+00:00

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

2018-02-26T16:57:39+00:00

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.h, branch master

batman-adv: Use consistent name for mesh interface

batman-adv: Check ptr for NULL before reducing its refcnt

batman-adv: Drop implicit creation of batadv net_devices

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

batman-adv: Use includes instead of fwdecls

batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2019

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2018