Add the support for recognising new originators in the
network and rebroadcast their OGMs.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>

This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol
(version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the
newly added ELP.

In the previous version the OGM protocol was used to both
measure link qualities and flood the network with the metric
information. In this version the protocol is in charge of
the latter task only, leaving the former to ELP.

This means being able to decouple the interval used by the
neighbor discovery from the OGM broadcasting, which revealed
to be costly in dense networks and needed to be relaxed so
leading to a less responsive routing protocol.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>

Initially developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study
period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>

The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single
message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to
the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality
information through the whole mesh. This procedure is
summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in
details in the RFC draft published in 2008.

This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the
protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it
also bears some drawbacks:

 *  Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss,
    therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow
    a fast reaction on flaky connections.
    Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to
    Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet
    loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce
    overhead.
 *  It generally is more desirable to detect local link
    quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all
    these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of
    the mesh does not need to care about local link quality
    changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like
    reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't
    used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time.

As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled
by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message
type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these
link quality information and determining the overall path
transmit qualities.

Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>

Signed-off-by: NSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>

As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>

Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

batman-adv doesn't follow the style for multiline comments that David S. Miller
prefers. All comments should be reformatted to follow this consistent style to
make the code slightly more readable.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.
Reported-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not
violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a
cast to the non-const version.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We include different header files indirectly to the same source file.
This creates weird compiler errors from time to time. Include guards
should prefend that functions/variables/... gets redefined by itself.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is
a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The
networks may be wired or wireless. See
http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.

This is the first submission for inclusion in staging.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>