netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 3/4] bridge: add export of multicast database adjacent to net

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Message-ID: <20140530073834.0986af33@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2014 07:38:34 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 3/4] bridge: add export of multicast database
 adjacent to net_dev

On Sun, 25 May 2014 07:03:24 +0200
Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de> wrote:

> With this new, exported function br_multicast_list_adjacent(net_dev) a
> list of IPv4/6 addresses is returned. This list contains all multicast
> addresses sensed by the bridge multicast snooping feature on all bridge
> ports of the bridge interface of net_dev, excluding addresses from the
> specified net_device itself.
> 
> Adding bridge support to the batman-adv multicast optimization requires
> batman-adv knowing about the existence of bridged-in multicast
> listeners to be able to reliably serve them with multicast packets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>

Please use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
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