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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.net>
Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Configuration interface...
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:01:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090826110131.GI20818@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908261651.16980.lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

> > > Should /proc/net/batman-adv/interface be replaced with an IOCTL interface
> > > similar to brctl?
> >
> > How to design the kernel<->userspace interface that it doesn't end like
> > wireless-tools?
> 
> I'm not so familiar with the iwconfig situation you seem to refer to. Could you 
> outline the issues ?

It is complex and horrible. It is also badly implemented by many
wireless devices so is inconsistent.

However, batman has a much simpler interface. There is a lot less to
configure:

originator interval
aggregation to enable/disable
vis server/client mode
interfaces to use

So it should be possible to implement a reasonably simple interface. I
think only the interfaces is somewhat tricky and needs thinking
about. The rest can be individual files in /sys.

       Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26  6:41 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] List policy for none subscribers Andrew Lunn
2009-08-26  7:54 ` Marek Lindner
2009-08-26  8:27   ` Andrew Lunn
2009-08-26  8:01 ` Sven Eckelmann
2009-08-26  8:51   ` Marek Lindner
2009-08-26 10:47     ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Breaking long lines Andrew Lunn
2009-08-26 10:52     ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] New name for batman-adv? Andrew Lunn
2009-08-27  9:58       ` Marek Lindner
2009-08-27 19:44         ` Andrew Lunn
2009-08-28  1:57           ` Outback Dingo
2009-08-28  3:08             ` Andrew de Andrade
2009-08-28  6:42             ` Antoine van Gelder
2009-10-09 18:57         ` Linus Lüssing
2009-08-26 11:01     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2009-08-27 13:57     ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] List policy for none subscribers Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-08-26  9:19   ` elektra
2009-08-26 10:41     ` Andrew Lunn
2009-08-26 18:08     ` Andrew Lunn
2009-08-27 10:05       ` Marek Lindner
2009-08-27 11:10       ` elektra
2009-08-27 14:17         ` Andrew Lunn

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