Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batctl: make the TT CRC logic VLAN specific

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

On Thursday, August 08, 2013 06:21:31 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> 
> This change allows nodes to handle the TT table on a
> per-VLAN basis. This is needed because nodes may have to
> store only some of the global entries advertised by another
> node.
> 
> In this scenario such nodes would re-create only a partial
> global table and would not be able to compute a correct CRC
> anymore.
> 
> This patch splits the logic and introduces one CRC per VLAN.
> In this way a node fetching only some entries belonging to
> some VLANs is still able to compute the needed CRCs and
> still check the table correctness.
> 
> With this patch the shape of the TVLV-TT is changed too
> because now a node needs to advertise all the CRCs of all
> the VLANs that it is wired to.
> 
> The debug output of the local Translation Table now shows
> the CRC along with each entry since there is not a common
> value for the entire table anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> ---
>  packet.h | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied in revision 38ae8d7.

Thanks,
Marek