The last round of multicast patches send to the batman-adv mailinglist to add support for the multicast optimizations in bridged scenarios, too, unfortunately had one major conceptual flaw: It could lead to packet loss. It's not sufficient to have the unicasting of reports implemented on bridge-nodes only. Nodes without bridges need to treat reports the same way.
The issue is described in detail here: https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Multicast-optimizations-listener-reports Cheers, Linus ----- Changelog: v5: * Removed RFC tag: Needed exports got merged to net-next and are going to be available with Linux 4.2 * Redid compat solution - now fully backwards compatible down to 2.6.33 v4: * excluded bridge part from this patchset, they should hopefully be added to net-next soon * Added a compat solution (PATCH 3/3) * Removed Kconfig-depends as by David's suggestion the needed parsing functions for MLD are going to be forced built-ins even if IPv6 is going to be built as a module * Removed unused variable 'int ret' in batadv_mcast_is_report_ipv6() * Adjusted to new folder structure v3: * Adding Kconfig-depends and #if's (so basically adding similar dependancy constraints as the bridge code has, except that there are no depends if batman-adv gets compiled without multicast optimizations) -> the case of IPv6=M and batman-adv=y is still impossible if multicast optimizations are enabled; but I don't see the practical demand for that either - people who use IPv6 as a module will probably also want to use batman-adv as a module v2: * various bugfixes (now runtime tested, too - should(tm) work) * added netdev+bridge mailinglists
