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From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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 16:06:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206150603.GE6839@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111206150134.GA12168@pandem0nium>

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:01:34PM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> 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.

sounds good IMHO! I think this would be a really nice solution.

> 
> 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?

I agree on this solution...it merges nearly all the ideas we discussed so far.

Cheers,

-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-06 15:06 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
2011-12-06 15:06             ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
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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