kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/net/batman-adv/network-coding.h, branch master

batman-adv: remove network coding support

2025-09-05T13:11:00+00:00

The Network Coding feature, introduced in 2013, is based on the master thesis "Inter-Flow Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks". It relies on the assumption that neighboring mesh nodes can reliably overhear each other's transmissions in promiscuous mode, allowing packets to be combined to reduce forwarding overhead. This assumption no longer holds for modern wireless mesh networks, which are heterogeneous and make overhearing increasingly unreliable. Factors such as multiple spatial streams, varying data rates, beamforming, and OFDMA all prevent nodes from consistently overhearing each other. The current implementation in batman-adv is not able to detect these conditions and would require a more complex layer beyond its neighbor discovery process to do so. In addition, the feature has been unmaintained for years and is discouraged for use. None of the current maintainers have the required test setup to verify its functionality, and known issues remain in its data structures (reference counting, RCU usage, and cleanup handling). Its continued presence also blocks necessary refactoring of the core originator infrastructure. Remove this obsolete and unmaintained feature. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll Acked-by: Marek Lindner 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 This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright holder) publishing information inside several files.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 debugfs support

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

The debugfs support in batman-adv was marked as deprecated by the commit 00caf6a2b318 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality 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: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

2019-06-27T17:25:04+00:00

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do something different based on this. Because we don't care if debugfs works or not, this trickles back a bit so we can clean things up by making some functions return void instead of an error value that is never going to fail. Cc: Marek Lindner Cc: Simon Wunderlich Cc: Antonio Quartulli Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [sven@narfation.org: drop unused variables] 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

batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header

2017-12-15T16:22:45+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/net/batman-adv/network-coding.h, branch master

batman-adv: remove network coding support

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs support

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

batman-adv: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

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

batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header