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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Comments on Lifenet?
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To: jon roland <jon.roland@constitution.org>
Cc: b a t m a n <b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>, Hrushikesh Mehendale <hrushi@gatech.edu>

Sven:
Thanks for scrolling through the code. Have you actually tried it? Do you have any improvements to suggest? (even if you're not an expert at kernel programming)
-SV

----- Original Message -----
> Your comments are just what I hoped to get. There seems to be an
> explosion of independent efforts in this field that are presently not
> talking to one another. It might benefit us all if there was more of a
> mesh among meshers.
> 
> On 08/24/2011 04:21 PM, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > I don't know what you are actually asking.
> >
> > Lifenet is not B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced (it uses some ideas also
> > present in
> > batman-adv) and has a complete different background [1].
> >
> > I scrolled through their code [2] and would recommend them to read
> > some books
> > about parallel programming [3] and a good lecture about kernel
> > programming (not
> > that I am good in it, but they are even worse).
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > 	Sven
> >
> > [1]
> > http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2011/papers/sigcomm/p446.pdf
> > [2] https://github.com/hrushim/LifeNet
> > [3]
> > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html
> 
> 
> -- Jon
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