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| author | Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> | 2011-11-24 17:15:25 -0800 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-11-28 14:44:07 -0500 |
| commit | 0cfda8519c85eb279166fb55a8553ee66eac9b35 (patch) | |
| tree | 55f917c9402c0164a76c80b4675ea173562a869f /net/mac80211/mesh.h | |
| parent | dca7e9430cb3e492437a5ce891b8b3e315c147ca (diff) | |
| download | lwn-0cfda8519c85eb279166fb55a8553ee66eac9b35.tar.gz lwn-0cfda8519c85eb279166fb55a8553ee66eac9b35.zip | |
mac80211: don't initiate path discovery when forwarding frame with unknown DA
We used to initiate a path discovery when receiving a frame for which
there is no forwarding information. To cut down on PREQ spam, just send
a (gated) PERR in response.
Also separate path discovery logic from nexthop querying. This patch
means we no longer queue frames when forwarding, so kill the PERR TX
stuff in discard_frame().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mesh.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mesh.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h index 622cc96eb4de..bd14bd26a2b6 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h @@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ void ieee80211_mesh_root_setup(struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh); /* Mesh paths */ int mesh_nexthop_lookup(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); +int mesh_nexthop_resolve(struct sk_buff *skb, + struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); void mesh_path_start_discovery(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); struct mesh_path *mesh_path_lookup(u8 *dst, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); |