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.] Batman as a kernel module
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:28:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417122830.GB3377@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKLmikMcCspLyMs_ub==LZ-rUtxo2QjT650s8atwp2nUnYD-vQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What are the reasons (except for performance) of Batman being a kernel
> module? Is there a way for running it in user-space? We have some
> servers where we get donated bandwidth, but as people are running also
> other stuff on those servers they do not really like adding kernel
> modules and probably even rebooting servers for upgrading to newer
> Batman versions.
Why not using the out-of-the-tree batman-adv package? You can compile the latest
batman-adv module against the running kernel (it must be >=2.6.29). You can find
more details in the README.external file that you will find in the batman-adv
out-of-the-tree package.
Cheers,
--
Antonio Quartulli
..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-17 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-17 12:05 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman as a kernel module Mitar
2012-04-17 12:10 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-04-17 12:28 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2012-04-17 17:01 ` Mitar
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