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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/Kconfig b/net/batman-adv/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c762758a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/batman-adv/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +# Copyright (C) 2007-2020 B.A.T.M.A.N. contributors: +# +# Marek Lindner, Simon Wunderlich + +# +# B.A.T.M.A.N meshing protocol +# + +config BATMAN_ADV + tristate "B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced Meshing Protocol" + depends on NET + select LIBCRC32C + help + 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 + https://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space + tools. + +config BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V + bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol" + depends on BATMAN_ADV && !(CFG80211=m && BATMAN_ADV=y) + default y + help + This option enables the B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol, the successor + of the currently used B.A.T.M.A.N. IV protocol. The main + changes include splitting of the OGM protocol into a neighbor + discovery protocol (Echo Location Protocol, ELP) and a new OGM + Protocol OGMv2 for flooding protocol information through the + network, as well as a throughput based metric. + B.A.T.M.A.N. V is currently considered experimental and not + compatible to B.A.T.M.A.N. IV networks. + +config BATMAN_ADV_BLA + bool "Bridge Loop Avoidance" + depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET + select CRC16 + default y + help + This option enables BLA (Bridge Loop Avoidance), a mechanism + to avoid Ethernet frames looping when mesh nodes are connected + to both the same LAN and the same mesh. If you will never use + more than one mesh node in the same LAN, you can safely remove + this feature and save some space. + +config BATMAN_ADV_DAT + bool "Distributed ARP Table" + depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET + default y + help + This option enables DAT (Distributed ARP Table), a DHT based + mechanism that increases ARP reliability on sparse wireless + mesh networks. If you think that your network does not need + this option you can safely remove it and save some space. + +config BATMAN_ADV_NC + bool "Network Coding" + depends on BATMAN_ADV + help + This option enables network coding, a mechanism that aims to + increase the overall network throughput by fusing multiple + packets in one transmission. + Note that interfaces controlled by batman-adv must be manually + configured to have promiscuous mode enabled in order to make + network coding work. + If you think that your network does not need this feature you + can safely disable it and save some space. + +config BATMAN_ADV_MCAST + bool "Multicast optimisation" + depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET && !(BRIDGE=m && BATMAN_ADV=y) + default y + help + This option enables the multicast optimisation which aims to + reduce the air overhead while improving the reliability of + multicast messages. + +config BATMAN_ADV_DEBUGFS + bool "batman-adv debugfs entries" + depends on BATMAN_ADV + depends on DEBUG_FS + help + Enable this to export routing related debug tables via debugfs. + The information for each soft-interface and used hard-interface can be + found under batman_adv/ + + If unsure, say N. + +config BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG + bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. debugging" + depends on BATMAN_ADV + help + This is an option for use by developers; most people should + say N here. This enables compilation of support for + outputting debugging information to the debugfs log or tracing + buffer. The output is controlled via the batadv netdev specific + log_level setting. + +config BATMAN_ADV_SYSFS + bool "batman-adv sysfs entries" + depends on BATMAN_ADV + help + Say Y here if you want to enable batman-adv device configuration and + status interface through sysfs attributes. It is replaced by the + batadv generic netlink family but still used by various userspace + tools and scripts. + + If unsure, say Y. + +config BATMAN_ADV_TRACING + bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. tracing support" + depends on BATMAN_ADV + depends on EVENT_TRACING + help + This is an option for use by developers; most people should + say N here. Select this option to gather traces like the debug + messages using the generic tracing infrastructure of the kernel. + BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG must also be selected to get trace events for + batadv_dbg. |