From: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:45:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mac80211: mesh gate implementation
X-Git-Tag: 1.9.5~24
X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=carl9170fw.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cbb4c4799ff0ed314b91461c332ac48a513ce8f4

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>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 7efc875..2f726e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -646,6 +646,10 @@ struct ieee80211_rann_ie {
 	u32 rann_metric;
 } __attribute__ ((packed));
 
+enum ieee80211_rann_flags {
+	RANN_FLAG_IS_GATE = 1 << 0,
+};
+
 #define WLAN_SA_QUERY_TR_ID_LEN 2
 
 struct ieee80211_mgmt {