This reverts commit
5712dc7fc812d1bdbc5e634d389bc759d4e7550c.
Turns out the batman maintainers didn't like the implementation of it,
and the original author was going to rework it to meet their approval,
and I applied it without fully realizing all of this.
My fault.
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>