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* bridge: multicast snooping patches / exports
@ 2014-05-21  8:58 Linus Lüssing
  2014-05-21  8:58 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] bridge: rename struct bridge_mcast_query/querier Linus Lüssing
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From: Linus Lüssing @ 2014-05-21  8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: bridge, Stephen Hemminger, David S. Miller, linux-kernel,
	b.a.t.m.a.n, Linus Lüssing

Hi,

The first patch is simply a cosmetic patch. So far I (and maybe others
too?) have been regularly confusing these two structs, therefore I'd
suggest renaming them and therefore making the follow-up patches easier
to understand and nicer to fit in.

The second patch fixes a minor issue, but probably not worth for stable.


On the other hand the first two patches are also preparations for the
third and fourth patch:

These two patches are exporting functionality needed to marry the bridge
multicast snooping with the batman-adv multicast optimizations recently
added for the 3.15 kernel, allowing to use these optimzations in common
setups having a bridge on top of e.g. bat0, too. So far these bridged
setups would fall back to simple flooding through the batman-adv mesh
network for any multicast packet entering bat0.

More information about the batman-adv multicast optimizations currently
implemented can be found here:

http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Basic-multicast-optimizations

The integration on the batman-adv side could afterwards look like this,
for instance:

http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commitdiff/576b59dd3e34737c702e548b21fa72059262f796?hp=f95ce7131746c65fbcdffcf2089cab59e2c2f7ac

Cheers, Linus

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2014-05-21  8:58 bridge: multicast snooping patches / exports Linus Lüssing
2014-05-21  8:58 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] bridge: rename struct bridge_mcast_query/querier Linus Lüssing
2014-05-21  8:59 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] bridge: adhere to querier election mechanism specified by RFCs Linus Lüssing
2014-05-24  3:36   ` David Miller
2014-05-21  8:59 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] bridge: add export of multicast database adjacent to net_dev Linus Lüssing
2014-05-21  8:59 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] bridge: memorize and export selected IGMP/MLD querier port Linus Lüssing
2014-05-22 19:37 ` bridge: multicast snooping patches / exports David Miller

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