mac80211: mesh gate implementation

In this implementation, a mesh gate is a root node with a certain bit
set in its RANN flags. The mpath to this root node is marked as a path
to a gate, and added to our list of known gates for this if_mesh. Once a
path discovery process fails, we forward the unresolved frames to a
known gate. Thanks to Luis Rodriguez for refactoring and bug fix help.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona
2011-08-09 16:45:08 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 00e3f25c85
commit 5ee68e5b39
6 changed files with 335 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ struct ieee80211_if_mesh {
struct mesh_config mshcfg;
u32 mesh_seqnum;
bool accepting_plinks;
int num_gates;
const u8 *ie;
u8 ie_len;
enum {