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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 11/11] [RFC] batman-adv: get primaries
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On Sunday, October 30, 2011 23:51:12 Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> Instead of acquiring the first interfaces originator through
> hard interface (including referencing/dereferencing), we can use the
> cached value in bat_priv->own_orig.
> 
> There might be some cases where this function was implicitly used to
> check whether there is a hard interface configured at all (i.e. if
> batman is active), therfore this is patch is an RFC.

Most of the functions do not simply retrieve the addr but also check if there 
is a primary interface. So, what happens if batman-adv has no primary_if ? 
AFAIK that can occur if all added hard-interfaces are down.

What happens with BLAII if there is no primary interface ?

Cheers,
Marek