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This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369
("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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
The documentation describing kernel-doc comments for functions ("How to
format kernel-doc comments") uses parentheses at the end of the function
name. Using this format allows to use a consistent style when adding
documentation to a function and when referencing this function in a
different kernel-doc section.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
It is easier to understand that the returned value of a specific function
doesn't have to be 0 when the functions was successful when the actual
return type is bool. This is especially true when all surrounding functions
with return type int use negative values to return the error code.
Reported-by: Nicholas Krause <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
(s|u)(8|16|32|64) are the preferred types in the kernel. The use of the
standard C99 types u?int(8|16|32|64)_t are objected by some people and even
checkpatch now warns about using them.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is
happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used.
This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the
knowledge about the right order of local includes.
Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly.
Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is
problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on
config settings and may not be stable in the future.
The order for include blocks are:
* primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file)
* global linux headers
* required local headers
* extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations
The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h.
This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must
therefore build together with userspace applications. The header
linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h
conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The
maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus
these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have
to include main.h to work correctly.
Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
batadv_bit_get_packet checks for all common situations before it decides that
the new received packet indicates that the host was restarted. This extra
condition check at the end of the function is not necessary because this
condition is always true.
This patch addresses Coverity #712296: Logically dead code
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
All non-static symbols of batman-adv were prefixed with batadv_ to avoid
collisions with other symbols of the kernel. Other symbols of batman-adv
should use the same prefix to keep the naming scheme consistent.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
All non-static symbols of batman-adv were prefixed with batadv_ to avoid
collisions with other symbols of the kernel. Other symbols of batman-adv
should use the same prefix to keep the naming scheme consistent.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
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: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
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: David Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
bitarray.c consists mostly of functionality that is already available as part
of the standard kernel API. batman-adv could use architecture optimized code
and reduce the binary size by switching to the standard functions.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
The check for new packets in the future used a wrong binary operator,
which makes the check expression always true and accepting too many
packets.
Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
Several typos have been corrected and some sentences have been rephrased
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
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: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed, and returns -1
through it:
net/batman-adv/routing.c: In function 'receive_bat_packet':
net/batman-adv/routing.c:739: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
Use int instead.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
[[email protected]: Rebase on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
It is not necessary to cast a void* to the pointer type when we just
store it and don't want to do pointer arithmetic before the actual
assignment.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
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: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Sven Eckelmann