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* batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright infoSven Eckelmann2021-02-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next) as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code mentioned in the MAINTAINERS "BATMAN ADVANCED" section was handled as a single entity regarding the publishing year. This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright holder) publishing information inside several files. But since the simple "update copyright year" commit (without other changes) in the file was not well received in the upstream kernel, the option to not have a copyright year (for initial and last publication) in the files are chosen instead. More detailed information about the years can still be retrieved from the SCM system. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Acked-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs supportSven Eckelmann2020-12-041-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | The debugfs support in batman-adv was marked as deprecated by the commit 00caf6a2b318 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality as deprecated") and scheduled for removal in 2021. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs supportSven Eckelmann2020-12-041-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit 42cdd521487f ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and scheduled for removal in 2021. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020Sven Eckelmann2020-01-011-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Make sysfs support optionalSven Eckelmann2019-03-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The sysfs files will be marked as deprecated in the near future. They are already replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. Add an Kconfig option to disable the sysfs support for users who want to test their tools or want to safe some space. This setting should currently still be enabled by default to keep backward compatible with legacy tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Drop license boilerplateSven Eckelmann2019-03-251-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369a4 ("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the required information about the license conditions can be found in LICENSES/. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2019Sven Eckelmann2019-01-041-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Provide debug messages as trace eventsSven Eckelmann2018-09-151-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A private debug logging infrastructure is currently provided via $debug_fs/batman_adv/*/log when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG is enabled. This is not well integrated in the rest of the tracing infrastructure of the kernel. Other components (like mac80211 or ath10k) allow to gather the debug messages using generic trace events which are better integrated. This makes it possible to interact with them using the existing userspace tools. The tracepoint batadv:batadv_dbg will now be available when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG and CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_TRACING is activated. The log level mask is still used for filtering as usual. A full system trace for offline parsing can be created (and read) using: $ batctl ll all $ trace-cmd record -e batadv:batadv_dbg $ trace-cmd report The same can also be done without recording to a file $ batctl ll all $ trace-cmd stream -e batadv:batadv_dbg The trace infrastructure is especially helpful when tracing processes: $ batctl ll all $ ./tools/perf/perf trace --event "batadv:*" batctl p 10.204.32.1 0.000 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Parsing outgoing ARP REQUEST 0.045 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 ARP MSG = [src: a2:64:14:53:f8:22-10.204.32.185 dst: 00:00:00:00:00:00-10.204.32.1] 0.067 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Entry updated: 10.204.32.185 a2:64:14:53:f8:22 (vid: -1) 0.099 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 batadv_dat_select_candidates(): IP=10.204.32.1 hash(IP)=48902 0.757 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 0: selected fe:2c:91:68:29:2b addr=48977 dist=65460 1.178 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 1: selected fe:81:ab:c5:e3:03 addr=49181 dist=65256 1.809 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 2: selected 66:25:a7:48:37:fb addr=49328 dist=65109 1.828 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 DHT_SEND for 10.204.32.1 Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2018Sven Eckelmann2018-02-261-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright headerSven Eckelmann2017-12-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "Linux kernel licensing rules" require that each file has a SPDX license identifier as first line (and sometimes as second line). The FSFE REUSE practices [1] would also require the same tags but have no restrictions on the placement in the source file. Using the "Linux kernel licensing rules" is therefore also fulfilling the FSFE REUSE practices requirements at the same time. [1] https://reuse.software/practices/ Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: update copyright years for 2017Sven Eckelmann2017-01-261-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Allow to disable debugfs supportSven Eckelmann2016-08-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may still rely on the old debugfs files. But systems which already upgraded their tools can save some space by disabling this feature. The default configuration of batman-adv on amd64 can reduce the size of the module by around 11% when this feature is disabled. $ size net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko* text data bss dec hex filename 150507 10395 4160 165062 284c6 net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.y 137106 7099 2112 146317 23b8d net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.n Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: throughput meter implementationAntonio Quartulli2016-07-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The throughput meter module is a simple, kernel-space replacement for throughtput measurements tool like iperf and netperf. It is intended to approximate TCP behaviour. It is invoked through batctl: the protocol is connection oriented, with cumulative acknowledgment and a dynamic-size sliding window. The test *can* be interrupted by batctl. A receiver side timeout avoids unlimited waitings for sender packets: after one second of inactivity, the receiver abort the ongoing test. Based on a prototype from Edo Monticelli <montik@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio.quartulli@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-advMatthias Schiffer2016-07-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel where files are dynamically added and removed (see http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware. Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers for debug tables and hard to parse text files. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> [sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family, add missing kerneldoc] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functionsSven Eckelmann2016-06-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them easier to find. Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: move bat_algo functions into a separate fileSven Eckelmann2016-06-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The bat_algo functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~15%, 103 lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other helper functions in main.c. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: split tvlv into a separate fileMarkus Pargmann2016-06-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The tvlv functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~45%, 588 lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other helper functions in main.c Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> [sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version, fix includes, rewrote commit message] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
* batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructureAntonio Quartulli2016-02-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructureLinus Luessing2016-02-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
* batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016Sven Eckelmann2016-02-021-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
* batman-adv: Makefile, Sort alphabeticallyMarkus Pargmann2015-05-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The whole Makefile is sorted, just the multicast rule is not at the right position. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: debugfs, avoid compiling for !DEBUG_FSMarkus Pargmann2015-05-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Normally the debugfs framework will return error pointer with -ENODEV for function calls when DEBUG_FS is not set. batman does not notice this error code and continues trying to create debugfs files and executes more code. We can avoid this code execution by disabling compiling debugfs.c when DEBUG_FS is not set. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015Sven Eckelmann2015-05-291-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: Multicast Listener Announcements via Translation TableLinus Lüssing2014-03-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | With this patch a node which has no bridge interface on top of its soft interface announces its local multicast listeners via the translation table. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014Simon Wunderlich2014-01-121-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimerAntonio Quartulli2014-01-081-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and mergeMartin Hundebøll2013-10-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge. Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never been fragmented. Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* batman-adv: Remove old fragmentation codeMartin Hundebøll2013-10-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the existing fragmentation code before adding the new version and delete unicast.{h,c}. batadv_unicast_send_skb() is moved to send.c and renamed to batadv_send_skb_unicast(). fragmentation entry in sysfs (bat_priv->fragmentation) is kept for use in the new fragmentation code. BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet type is renamed to BATADV_FRAG for use in the new fragmentation code. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* batman-adv: remove vis functionalitySimon Wunderlich2013-10-091-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this functionality to bloat the kernel. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
* batman-adv: move ring_buffer helper functions in bat_iv_ogmAntonio Quartulli2013-05-291-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | the two lonely ring_buffer helper functions are used by the bat_iv_ogm module only and therefore they can be moved inside it. Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: update Makefile copyright yearsAntonio Quartulli2013-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure codeMartin Hundebøll2013-03-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay. In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one from Node B to Node A: 1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B 2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B 3. Node A <--- p2 ---- Node R Node B 4. Node A Node R ---- p1 ---> Node B With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves us one slot of valuable airtime: 1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B 2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B 3. Node A <- p1 x p2 - Node R - p1 x p2 -> Node B The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D, respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save one transmission: Node A Node B | \ / | | p1 p2 | | \ / | p1 > Node R < p2 | | | / \ | | p1 x p2 p1 x p2 | v / \ v / \ Node C < > Node D More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1]. This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and also because it adds a small delay at each hop. [1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add compile optionAntonio Quartulli2012-11-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | This patch makes it possible to decide whether to include DAT within the batman-adv binary or not. It is extremely useful when the user wants to reduce the size of the resulting module by cutting off any not needed feature. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functionsAntonio Quartulli2012-11-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Add all the relevant functions in order to manage a Distributed Hash Table over the B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv network. It will later be used to store several ARP entries and implement DAT (Distributed ARP Table) Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: Remove bat_ prefix from bat_{debugfs, sysfs}.{c, h}Sven Eckelmann2012-07-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | The "bat_" prefix in the source files implementing the batman-adv sysfs and debugfs interface doesn't have a special meaning and are only used by these files and files that implement the actual B.A.T.M.A.N. path finding algorithm. The prefix is better suited to mark files that are used to implement the main part of the path finding. All other files should not use it and therefore gets renamed. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: add bridge loop avoidance compile optionSimon Wunderlich2012-04-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The define CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA switches the bridge loop avoidance on - skip it, and the bridge loop avoidance is not compiled in. This is useful if binary size should be saved or the feature is not needed. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance codeSimon Wunderlich2012-04-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This second version of the bridge loop avoidance for batman-adv avoids loops between the mesh and a backbone (usually a LAN). By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment: node1 <-- LAN --> node2 | | wifi <-- mesh --> wifi Packets from the LAN (e.g. ARP broadcasts) will circle forever from node1 or node2 over the mesh back into the LAN. With this patch, batman recognizes backbone gateways, nodes which are part of the mesh and backbone/LAN at the same time. Each backbone gateway "claims" clients from within the mesh to handle them exclusively. By restricting that only responsible backbone gateways may handle their claimed clients traffic, loops are effectively avoided. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann2012-02-161-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm sending functions in the batman iv ↵Marek Lindner2011-09-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | file In the process the batman iv OGM aggregation code could be merged into the batman iv code base which makes the separate aggregation files superfluous. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single fileMarek Lindner2011-09-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | 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: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann2011-01-311-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann2010-12-161-0/+39
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: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>