In preparation of the upcoming improved routing algorithm the code based has
to be re-organized to allow choosing the routing algorithm at compile time.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

The follow-up routing code changes are going to introduce additional
routing packet types which make this distinction necessary.
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>

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

The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network
of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that
client from any given point in the mesh.

The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data
buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is
serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables
(table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this
MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the
OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the
client is connected to and its address in the global translation table.

It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several
issues:
 - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of
   connected clients)
 - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and
   OGM losses

The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client
changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of
filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes
can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the
overhead within the OGMs.

To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation
table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These
values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to
determine whether or not they need to update their translation table
information.

When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet
to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to
the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with
their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information
than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly
reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next.
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

char was used in different places to store information without really
using the characteristics of that data type or by ignoring the fact that
char has not a well defined signedness.
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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>

To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed
to the TranslationTable style
Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

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

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>

converted files:
vis_mode, vis_data
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is the first patch in a series of patches which aim to convert
all batman-adv /proc files to sysfs. To keep the changes in a
digestable size it has been split up into smaller chunks. During
the transition period batman-adv will use /proc as well as sysfs.

As a first step the following files have been converted:
aggregate_ogm, originators, transtable_global, transtable_local
Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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>