On Monday, 26 December 2022 17:15:50 CET Linus Lüssing wrote:
> The multicast code to send a multicast packet via multiple batman-adv
> unicast packets is not only capable of sending to multiple but also to a
> single node. Therefore we can safely remove the old, specialized, now
> redundant multicast-to-single-unicast code.
> 
> The only functional change of this simplification is that the edge case
> of allowing a multicast packet with an unsnoopable destination address
> (224.0.0.0/24 or ff02::1) where only a single node has signaled interest
> in it via the batman-adv want-all-unsnoopables multicast flag is now
> transmitted via a batman-adv broadcast instead of a batman-adv unicast
> packet. Maintaining this edge case feature does not seem worth the extra
> lines of code and people should just not expect to be able to snoop and
> optimize such unsnoopable multicast addresses when bridges are involved.
> 
> While at it also renaming a few items in the batadv_forw_mode enum to
> prepare for the new batman-adv multicast packet type.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
> ---
>  net/batman-adv/multicast.c      | 248 ++------------------------------
>  net/batman-adv/multicast.h      |  38 +----
>  net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c |  25 ++--
>  3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 278 deletions(-)


Output of different failed tests
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ecsv/pu: headers
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    diff --git a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c
    index 89ba1093..6f387e61 100644
    --- a/net/batman-adv/multicast.c
    +++ b/net/batman-adv/multicast.c
    @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
     #include <linux/ipv6.h>
     #include <linux/jiffies.h>
     #include <linux/kernel.h>
    -#include <linux/kref.h>
     #include <linux/list.h>
     #include <linux/lockdep.h>
     #include <linux/netdevice.h>
    diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
    index c2fa0ef5..cd04ab27 100644
    --- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
    +++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
    @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     #include "hard-interface.h"
     #include "multicast.h"
     #include "network-coding.h"
    -#include "originator.h"
     #include "send.h"
     #include "translation-table.h"