Hi Ruben,

thanks for re-sending the patch - as Sven pointed out we need to have it 
formatted properly before we can accept it. He mentioned various links which 
we have on the wiki, if you have troubles to apply we can also help you on 
IRC.

@All: I've been talking to Ruben personally at Wireless Community Weekend. He 
explained that they drag this patch around for their gluon community firmware 
and would like to get it merged - I found the original discussion, but he had 
some good arguments to merge it anyway. Therefore I've asked Ruben to rebase 
and send it again to re-start the discussion. :)

Thanks!
    Simon

On Saturday 16 May 2015 22:07:36 Ruben Wisniewski wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
> ---
>  hard-interface.c           |  2 ++
>  send.c                     |  4 ++++
>  sysfs-class-net-batman-adv | 10 ++++++++
>  sysfs.c                    | 59
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ types.h                    |
>  1 +
>  5 files changed, 76 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hard-interface.c b/hard-interface.c
> index fbda6b5..3997f9c 100644
> --- a/hard-interface.c
> +++ b/hard-interface.c
> @@ -591,6 +591,8 @@ batadv_hardif_add_interface(struct net_device *net_dev)
>  	/* extra reference for return */
>  	atomic_set(&hard_iface->refcount, 2);
> 
> +	atomic_set(&hard_iface->no_rebroadcast, 0);
> +
>  	batadv_check_known_mac_addr(hard_iface->net_dev);
>  	list_add_tail_rcu(&hard_iface->list, &batadv_hardif_list);
> 
> diff --git a/send.c b/send.c
> index d27161e..4383a66 100644
> --- a/send.c
> +++ b/send.c
> @@ -513,6 +513,10 @@ static void batadv_send_outstanding_bcast_packet(struct
> work_struct *work) if (forw_packet->num_packets >= hard_iface->num_bcasts)
>  			continue;
> 
> +		if (atomic_read(&hard_iface->no_rebroadcast) &&
> +		    forw_packet->skb->dev == hard_iface->net_dev)
> +			continue;
> +
>  		/* send a copy of the saved skb */
>  		skb1 = skb_clone(forw_packet->skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  		if (skb1)
> diff --git a/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv b/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
> index 7f34a95..cf7fe00 100644
> --- a/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
> +++ b/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv
> @@ -13,3 +13,13 @@ Description:
>                  displays the batman mesh interface this <iface>
>                  currently is associated with.
> 
> +What:           /sys/class/net/<iface>/batman-adv/no_rebroadcast
> +Date:           Sep 2013
> +Contact:        Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
> +Description:
> +                With this option set incoming multicast payload frames on
> +                <iface> are not being rebroadcasted on <iface> again. This
> +                option should be set on links which are known to be
> transitive +                and symmetric only, for instance point-to-point
> wifi longshots +                or wired links. Using this option wrongly
> is going to +                break your mesh network, use at your own risk!
> diff --git a/sysfs.c b/sysfs.c
> index fc47baa..adaeca4 100644
> --- a/sysfs.c
> +++ b/sysfs.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,17 @@ struct batadv_attribute batadv_attr_vlan_##_name = {	\
>  	.store  = _store,				\
>  }
> 
> +/* Use this, if you have customized show and store functions
> + * for hard interface attrs
> + */
> +#define BATADV_ATTR_HIF(_name, _mode, _show, _store)	\
> +struct batadv_attribute batadv_attr_hif_##_name = {	\
> +	.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name),		\
> +		 .mode = _mode },			\
> +	.show   = _show,				\
> +	.store  = _store,				\
> +};
> +
>  /* Use this, if you have customized show and store functions */
>  #define BATADV_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store)	\
>  struct batadv_attribute batadv_attr_##_name = {		\
> @@ -221,6 +232,52 @@ ssize_t batadv_show_vlan_##_name(struct kobject
> *kobj,			\ static BATADV_ATTR_VLAN(_name, _mode,
> batadv_show_vlan_##_name,	\ batadv_store_vlan_##_name)
> 
> +#define BATADV_ATTR_HIF_STORE_BOOL(_name, _post_func)			\
> +ssize_t batadv_store_hif_##_name(struct kobject *kobj,			\
> +				 struct attribute *attr, char *buff,	\
> +				 size_t count)				\
> +{									\
> +	struct net_device *net_dev = batadv_kobj_to_netdev(kobj);	\
> +	struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface;				\
> +	size_t res;							\
> +									\
> +	hard_iface = batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(net_dev);		\
> +	if (!hard_iface)						\
> +		return 0;						\
> +									\
> +	res = __batadv_store_bool_attr(buff, count, _post_func,		\
> +					      attr, &hard_iface->_name,	\
> +					      hard_iface->soft_iface);	\
> +	batadv_hardif_free_ref(hard_iface);				\
> +	return res;							\
> +}
> +
> +#define BATADV_ATTR_HIF_SHOW_BOOL(_name)				\
> +ssize_t batadv_show_hif_##_name(struct kobject *kobj,			\
> +				struct attribute *attr, char *buff)	\
> +{									\
> +	struct net_device *net_dev = batadv_kobj_to_netdev(kobj);	\
> +	struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface;				\
> +	size_t res;							\
> +									\
> +	hard_iface = batadv_hardif_get_by_netdev(net_dev);		\
> +	if (!hard_iface)						\
> +		return 0;						\
> +									\
> +	res = sprintf(buff, "%s\n",					\
> +		      atomic_read(&hard_iface->_name) == 0 ?		\
> +				"disabled" : "enabled");		\
> +	batadv_hardif_free_ref(hard_iface);				\
> +	return res;							\
> +}
> +
> +/* Use this, if you are going to turn a [name] in the vlan struct on or off
> */ +#define BATADV_ATTR_HIF_BOOL(_name, _mode, _post_func)			\
> +	static BATADV_ATTR_HIF_STORE_BOOL(_name, _post_func)		\
> +	static BATADV_ATTR_HIF_SHOW_BOOL(_name)				\
> +	static BATADV_ATTR_HIF(_name, _mode, batadv_show_hif_##_name,	\
> +			       batadv_store_hif_##_name)
> +
>  static int batadv_store_bool_attr(char *buff, size_t count,
>  				  struct net_device *net_dev,
>  				  const char *attr_name, atomic_t *attr)
> @@ -844,10 +901,12 @@ static ssize_t batadv_show_iface_status(struct kobject
> *kobj, static BATADV_ATTR(mesh_iface, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
> batadv_show_mesh_iface, batadv_store_mesh_iface);
>  static BATADV_ATTR(iface_status, S_IRUGO, batadv_show_iface_status, NULL);
> +BATADV_ATTR_HIF_BOOL(no_rebroadcast, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, NULL);
> 
>  static struct batadv_attribute *batadv_batman_attrs[] = {
>  	&batadv_attr_mesh_iface,
>  	&batadv_attr_iface_status,
> +	&batadv_attr_hif_no_rebroadcast,
>  	NULL,
>  };
> 
> diff --git a/types.h b/types.h
> index 8854c05..39619fb 100644
> --- a/types.h
> +++ b/types.h
> @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct batadv_hard_iface {
>  	struct batadv_hard_iface_bat_iv bat_iv;
>  	struct work_struct cleanup_work;
>  	struct dentry *debug_dir;
> +	atomic_t no_rebroadcast;
>  };
> 
>  /**