Re: pull request: batman-adv 2011-09-08

From: Marek Lindner <redacted>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:39:26 +0200

 To ensure a smooth transition and efficient testing later, we 
 decided to offer a choice of routing algorithm but have not     
 come to a final decision on how to design this choice yet. It
 either will be a compile time option, a module parameter or a
 runtime switch. Any suggestions / best practice tips ?

What do you mean by "algorithm"?  Do you mean the implementation
of the data-structure used to perform lookups?

We had two data structures for our main routing table lookup
implementation in ipv4, this was a mistake.  We spent the next couple
years maintaining two pieces of code, and finally investing lots of
effort to eliminate the older code.