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From: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] switch routing algorithm at runtime
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:01:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206150134.GA12168@pandem0nium> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111205142553.GE10131@lunn.ch>

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Hey there,

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:25:53PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Here comes the chicken & egg problem: We can't have bat0 and its routing 
> > algorithm selection before we did not add at least one hard-interface.

an alternative we may consider:

We could just write the name of the algorithm in a debugfs file called
"routing_algorithm". It is filled with batmanIV as the default algorithm
to start with, and whatever is written there is used for the next soft interface
to be created.

This would be backward compatible and changes are only made upon creation of a
soft interface. It would also allow different soft interfaces using different
routing algorithms (if someone really needs it). Putting it into debugfs may be
not the worst idea, as changing routing algorithms is (currently) only done for
debugging purposes anyway.

What do you think?

Cheers
	Simon

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-06 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-05  9:56 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] switch routing algorithm at runtime Marek Lindner
2011-12-05  9:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/3] batman-adv: add infrastructure to change " Marek Lindner
2011-12-05  9:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/3] batman-adv: convert batman iv algorithm to use dynamic infrastructure Marek Lindner
2011-12-05  9:56 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/3] batman-adv: allowing changing the routing algorithm via sysfs Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 11:27 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] switch routing algorithm at runtime Andrew Lunn
2011-12-05 11:35   ` Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 12:13     ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-05 13:38       ` Marek Lindner
2011-12-05 14:09         ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-12-05 14:38           ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-05 14:44             ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-12-05 14:25         ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-06 15:01           ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2011-12-06 15:06             ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-12-06 15:21             ` Andrew Lunn
2011-12-06 15:30               ` Marek Lindner
2011-12-06 17:36                 ` Simon Wunderlich

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