Dear net maintainers,

here is cleanup pull request of batman-adv to go into net-next.

Please pull or let me know of any problem!

Thank you,
      Simon

The following changes since commit 805185b7c7a1069e407b6f7b3bc98e44d415f484:

  Merge tag 'net-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net (2026-06-25 12:25:36 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.open-mesh.org/batadv.git tags/batadv-next-pullrequest-20260630

for you to fetch changes up to 247691642fd4de7a029de253e47dba936542ce9f:

  batman-adv: tp_meter: delay allocation of unacked entry (2026-06-28 22:09:04 +0200)

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This cleanup patchset includes the following patches:

 - drop hardif global list, by Nora Schiffer (2 patches)

 - make hard_iface->mesh_iface immutable, by Sven Eckelmann

 - further post-hardif global list cleanups,
   by Nora Schiffer (3 patches)

 - cleanups and simplifications depending on the hardif->mesh_iface
   immutability guarantee, by Sven Eckelmann (3 patches)

 - tvlv: extract tvlv header iterator, by Sven Eckelmann

 - tp_meter: improve unacked list handling,
   by Sven Eckelmann (5 patches)

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Nora Schiffer (5):
      batman-adv: create hardif only for netdevs that are part of a mesh
      batman-adv: remove global hardif list
      batman-adv: remove BATADV_IF_NOT_IN_USE hardif state
      batman-adv: move hardif generation counter into batadv_priv
      batman-adv: drop unneeded goto and initialization from batadv_hardif_disable_interface()

Sven Eckelmann (10):
      batman-adv: make hard_iface->mesh_iface immutable
      batman-adv: drop NULL check for immutable hardif->mesh_iface
      Revert "batman-adv: v: stop OGMv2 on disabled interface"
      batman-adv: iv: drop migration check for batadv_hard_iface
      batman-adv: tvlv: extract tvlv header iterator
      batman-adv: tp_meter: simplify unordered ack calculation
      batman-adv: tp_meter: combine adjacent/overlapping unacked entries
      batman-adv: tp_meter: keep unacked list for receivers
      batman-adv: tp_meter: adjust name of receiver lock
      batman-adv: tp_meter: delay allocation of unacked entry

 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c            |  12 +-
 net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c             |   9 +-
 net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c             |  33 ++---
 net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c |   9 +-
 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c        | 165 ++++++++-----------------
 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.h        |  10 +-
 net/batman-adv/main.c                  |   9 --
 net/batman-adv/main.h                  |   3 -
 net/batman-adv/mesh-interface.c        |  13 +-
 net/batman-adv/netlink.c               |   4 +-
 net/batman-adv/originator.c            |   4 -
 net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c              | 217 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 net/batman-adv/tvlv.c                  |  86 +++++++------
 net/batman-adv/types.h                 |  28 ++---
 14 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 329 deletions(-)