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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] routing code re-organization / the road ahead
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:39:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108031639.53966.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110803083056.GE9901@lunn.ch>


Hi,

> Looking at the header files, it is not clear to me which contains this
> routing algo API. Is it bat_ogm.h?

yes, it is.


> Has there been any discussion if compile time is sufficient? How about
> making it a runtime decision? I presume mixing routing algorithms
> within a mesh is not going to work. However, being able to configure
> the algorithm per mesh should be possible. This gives a greater degree
> of interoperability, which might make the Linux Network maintainers
> happier?

we discussed various options but at the end decided to move forward with the 
compile time option. Personally, I doubt many people will want the new routing 
algorithm until it has been stabilized (we will provide a 'default' option 
that enables B.A.T.M.A.N. IV).

Nevertheless, I am not against having the run time option if someone wants to 
do it. Are you going to provide the necessary patches ?

Where is the interoperability coming from ? The protocols won't be compatible.
However, we are planing on integrating an extensible header format which 
allows to add features that will be backward compatible.

Cheers,
Marek

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-03  7:52 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] routing code re-organization / the road ahead Marek Lindner
2011-08-03  7:52 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/4] batman-adv: rename all instances of batman_packet to batman_ogm_packet Marek Lindner
2011-08-03  7:53   ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/4] batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single file Marek Lindner
2011-08-18 10:34     ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-03  7:53   ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/4] batman-adv: move routing packet initialization into corresponding file Marek Lindner
2011-08-18 10:35     ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-03  7:53   ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/4] batman-adv agglomerate all batman iv ogm senbding functions in the batman iv file Marek Lindner
2011-08-18 10:36     ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-18 10:33   ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/4] batman-adv: rename all instances of batman_packet to batman_ogm_packet Marek Lindner
2011-08-03  8:30 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] routing code re-organization / the road ahead Andrew Lunn
2011-08-03 14:39   ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2011-08-03 16:50     ` Andrew Lunn
2011-08-04  8:29       ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-12 13:15       ` Simon Wunderlich

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