Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] No rebroadcast on mesh links

Marek Lindner
2016-03-27T02:38:21Z

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Roland,

> Thank you for response. When looking at
> "https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/4384/" it seems, the patch isn't
> implemented because of no more activity after 2 years of discussion.
>
> AFAIK Linus Lüssing, author of the original patch, is still active in
> batman-adv project:
>
> Linus, can you please bring this issue to a good end? There will be a
> lot of Freifunk friends happy with it - including me.

if you are advocating in favor of this patch I see no real need to wait for
Linus. Maybe you can help us understand what this patch does and why it is
useful. These were the questions raised in https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/4384/ and remain unanswered till today.

I am also unclear why this old patch is re-hashed once more since we merged a
patch 3 years ago achieving the same goal without a manual knob. Can somebody
shed some light on this ?

The patch in question:
commit cc1fde312b6d3c010784a80aff9e942e3b16d015
Author: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Date: Sat Mar 9 23:14:23 2013 +0100
Subject: batman-adv: send each broadcast only once on non-wireless interfaces

> On 12.03.2015 Ticket #207 was opened by Ruben Kelevra relating the same
> issue, but immediately closed due to formal error.

It might appear as a nuisance to you but it is standard Linux kernel practice
to send patch submissions to the mailing list. That is why the ticket was
closed.

Cheers,
Marek

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