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{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Add support of setting non-forwarding entity in Mesh

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A mesh node that joins the mesh network is by default a forwarding entity. This patch allows
the mesh node to set as non-forwarding entity. Whenever dot11MeshForwarding is set to 0, the
mesh node can prevent itself from forwarding the traffic which is not destined to him.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Chun-Yeow Yeoh
2012-01-21 01:02:16 +08:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 2da8f419e7
commit 94f9065648
7 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
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net/wireless/mesh.c
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@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ const struct mesh_config default_mesh_config = {
.min_discovery_timeout = MESH_MIN_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT,
.dot11MeshHWMPRannInterval = MESH_RANN_INTERVAL,
.dot11MeshGateAnnouncementProtocol = false,
.dot11MeshForwarding = true,
};
const struct mesh_setup default_mesh_setup = {

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net/wireless/nl80211.c
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@@ -3258,6 +3258,8 @@ static int nl80211_get_mesh_config(struct sk_buff *skb,
cur_params.dot11MeshHWMPRannInterval);
NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS,
cur_params.dot11MeshGateAnnouncementProtocol);
NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING,
cur_params.dot11MeshForwarding);
nla_nest_end(msg, pinfoattr);
genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
return genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
@@ -3289,6 +3291,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_meshconf_params_policy[NL80211_MESHCONF_A
[NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_ROOTMODE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_RANN_INTERVAL] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
[NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
};
static const struct nla_policy
@@ -3378,6 +3381,8 @@ do {\
dot11MeshGateAnnouncementProtocol, mask,
NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS,
nla_get_u8);
FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, dot11MeshForwarding,
mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING, nla_get_u8);
if (mask_out)
*mask_out = mask;