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mac80211: update mesh peering frame format

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This patch updates the mesh peering frames to the format specified in
the recently ratified 802.11s standard. Several changes took place to
make this happen:

	- Change RX path to handle new self-protected frames
	- Add new Peering management IE
	- Remove old Peer Link IE
	- Remove old plink_action field in ieee80211_mgmt header

These changes by themselves would either break peering, or work by
coincidence, so squash them all into this patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 20:01:00 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 54ef656b05
commit 8db098507c
6 changed files with 79 additions and 66 deletions
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include/linux/ieee80211.h
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@@ -736,19 +736,6 @@ struct ieee80211_mgmt {
__le16 params;
__le16 reason_code;
} __attribute__((packed)) delba;
struct{
u8 action_code;
/* capab_info for open and confirm,
* reason for close
*/
__le16 aux;
/* Followed in plink_confirm by status
* code, AID and supported rates,
* and directly by supported rates in
* plink_open and plink_close
*/
u8 variable[0];
} __attribute__((packed)) plink_action;
struct {
u8 action_code;
u8 variable[0];
@@ -1200,11 +1187,6 @@ enum ieee80211_eid {
WLAN_EID_MESH_ID = 114,
WLAN_EID_LINK_METRIC_REPORT = 115,
WLAN_EID_CONGESTION_NOTIFICATION = 116,
/* Note that the Peer Link IE has been replaced with the similar
* Peer Management IE. We will keep the former definition until mesh
* code is changed to comply with latest 802.11s drafts.
*/
WLAN_EID_PEER_LINK = 55, /* no longer in 802.11s drafts */
WLAN_EID_PEER_MGMT = 117,
WLAN_EID_CHAN_SWITCH_PARAM = 118,
WLAN_EID_MESH_AWAKE_WINDOW = 119,