On Thursday 30 June 2016 10:09:25 Linus Lüssing wrote: > Since recently the multicast optimizations are using functions from the > bridge module. If batman-adv is a kernel built-in, then these bridge > functions need to be accessible immediately. Thus adding a Kconfig > dependency for the multicast optimizations to depend on batman-adv being > built as a module if the bridge is built as a module, too. [...] > config BATMAN_ADV_MCAST > bool "Multicast optimisation" > - depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET > + depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET && !(BRIDGE=m && BATMAN_ADV=y) > default n > help > This option enables the multicast optimisation which aims to
The used functions are provided via stubs in include/linux/if_bridge.h when bridge is disabled. So the symbols are only missing when the batman-adv code is compiled as part of the kernel but the bridge code is compiled as modules. So this change seems to make sense. Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> It is now part of the linux-merge.git. Kind regards, Sven
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