netdev - Re: pull request: batman-adv 20140322

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Message-Id: <20140322.150054.1510542767128325330.davem@davemloft.net>
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.
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