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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:21:03 +0200
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Some additions below:

On Thursday 31 March 2016 14:11:19 Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> 
> So let us consider the other two options:
> 
> 1.) sysfs flags (as in Linus original patch, or similar):
> 
>  + can be integrated fast

One more comment here, fast means that we can integrate it fast in batman-adv, 
which will help if you use the external module. It will still take some time 
to dripple into distribution kernels just as Debian. However, compiling the 
external batman-adv module is easier than upgrading to have netdev flag ...

>  + is already deployed and tested
>  - requires manual work by the admin, no automatism
>  - we can't expect that other VPNs/subsystems/etc will create automatisms to
> specifically support batman-adv
>  - requires us to maintain a flag for a special userbase/use case
> 
> 2.) TRANSITIVE flag as proposed by Linus

just noticed, actually it was proposed by Marek in the mail before, but only 
Linus fancy name (in capital!) caught my attention ... :)

Cheers,
    Simon
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