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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:00:54 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: antonio@...hcoding.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org Subject: Re: pull request: batman-adv 20140322 From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:56:00 +0100 > here you have our patchset for net-next/linux-3.15. > They are 16 patches but most of them are just small cleanups and kerneldoc > improvements. > > The only big change is the one from patch 8 to 13 by Linus Lüssing that > introduces a new multicast packets optimisation. This new component aims to > reduce the air overhead by sending multicast packets as bat-unicast > when only one destination exists or by dropping them directly at the source if > the multicast group is totally empty. > > In patch 11 Linus introduces an atomic_t variable, that like others that we > already have is only object of write and read, thus making the atomic > characteristic totally useless. > Unfortunately this is part of our sysfs framework, that helps the developer to > introduce new knobs by using few macros only. For this reason we decided to keep > Linus' new knob for now, but I'd like to let you know that we are in the process > of re-working such framework in order to convert all the current (useless) > atomic_t to boolean in one go. > > Please pull or let me know of any problem! Pulled, thanks Antonio. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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