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* net/mac80211: Correct size given to memsetJulia Lawall2009-12-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size of the pointer. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ type T; T *x; expression E; @@ memset(x, E, sizeof( + * x)) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* net: Move && and || to end of previous lineJoe Perches2009-11-291-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Not including net/atm/ Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored. Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* mac80211: use a structure to hold the mesh config information elementRui Paulo2009-11-181-15/+8
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use fixed broadcast addressJohannes Berg2009-11-181-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The netdev broadcast address cannot change from all-ones so there's no need to use it; we can instead hard-code it. Since we already have an instance in tkip.c, which will be shared if it is marked static const, doing this reduces text size at no data/bss cost. The real motivation for this is, of course, the desire to get rid of almost all uses of netdevs in mac80211 so that auditing their use becomes easier. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: update copyrights to 2009Rui Paulo2009-11-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add nl80211/cfg80211 handling of the new mesh root mode option.Rui Paulo2009-11-131-0/+13
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: implement a timer to send RANN action framesRui Paulo2009-11-131-0/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | RANN (Root Annoucement) frame TX. Send an action frame every second trying to build a path to all nodes on the mesh. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: replace "destination" with "target" to follow the specRui Paulo2009-11-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Resulting object files have the same MD5 as before. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add the DS params to the beaconRui Paulo2009-11-131-0/+7
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: update peer link management IE and action framesRui Paulo2009-11-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Update the length and format of the peer link management action frames. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: implement the meshconf formation info fieldRui Paulo2009-11-111-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | The Mesh Configuration Formation Info field contains the number of neighbors. This means that the beacon must be updated every time a peer joins or leaves. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <rpaulo@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: update meshconf IERui Paulo2009-11-111-40/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | This updates the Mesh Configuration IE according to the latest draft (3.03). Notable changes include the simplified protocol IDs. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mesh: use set_bit() to set MESH_WORK_HOUSEKEEPING.Rui Paulo2009-10-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | This makes the mesh housekeeping timer work properly on big endian systems. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Update mesh config IE to 11s draft 3.02Javier Cardona2009-08-281-15/+34
| | | | | | | | | | The mesh config information element has changed significantly since draft 1.08 This patch brings it up to date. Thanks to Sam Leffler and Rui Paulo for identifying this. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue.Javier Cardona2009-08-141-67/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This prevents calling rcu_synchronize from within the tx path by moving the table growth code to the mesh workqueue. Move mesh_table_free and mesh_table_grow from mesh.c to mesh_pathtbl.c and declare them static. Also, re-enable mesh in Kconfig and update the configuration description. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Assign a default mesh beaconing interval.Javier Cardona2009-08-141-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | The mesh stack was enabling beaconing without specifying an interval. This patch defines a default beaconing interval of 1s. Incidentally, this fixes mesh beaconing in mac80211_hwsim devices. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Use 3-address format for mesh broadcast frames.Javier Cardona2009-08-141-4/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 11s task group recently changed the frame mesh multicast/broadcast frame format to use 3-address. This was done to avoid interactions with widely deployed lazy-WDS access points. This patch changes the format of group addressed frames, both mesh-originated and proxied, to use the data format defined in draft D2.08 and forward. The address fields used for group addressed frames is: In 802.11 header ToDS:0 FromDS:1 addr1: DA (broadcast/multicast address) addr2: TA addr3: Mesh SA In address extension header: addr4: SA (only present if frame was proxied) Note that this change breaks backward compatibility with earlier mesh stack versions. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix compilation of mesh (although its disabled)Luis R. Rodriguez2009-08-141-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mesh is currently disabled on mac80211, its marked as broken. This patch gets it to compile though, to account for the mac80211 workqueue changes. There was a simple typo in the patches for mesh for the workqueue migration, but we never compile tested it as we couldn't even select mesh as its broken. Lets at least let it compile for those interested in getting it fixed. Reported-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueueLuis R. Rodriguez2009-08-041-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211 takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never really had requirements on drivers for how they should use the workqueue in consideration for suspend. We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue: * ieee80211_queue_work() * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work() These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211 flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times, but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the suspend cycle. Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work in the mac80211 stop() callback. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Replace {sw, hw}_scanning variables with a bitfieldHelmut Schaa2009-07-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Use a bitfield to store the current scan mode instead of two boolean variables {sw,hw}_scanning. This patch does not introduce functional changes but allows us to enhance the scan flags later (for example for background scanning). Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: mesh: fix two small problemsJohannes Berg2009-07-241-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | 1) there's a spin_lock() that needs to be spin_lock_bh() 2) action frames of size 24 might cause an out-of-bounds memory access (for the 25th byte only, so no big deal) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: push rx status into skb->cbJohannes Berg2009-07-101-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be optimised on its own schedule. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Use rcu_barrier() on unload.Jesper Dangaard Brouer2009-06-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The mac80211 module uses rcu_call() thus it should use rcu_barrier() on module unload. The rcu_barrier() is placed in mech.c ieee80211_stop_mesh() which is invoked from ieee80211_stop() in case vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT. Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* mac80211: cancel/restart all timers across suspend/resumeJohannes Berg2009-05-201-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We forgot to cancel all timers in mac80211 when suspending. In particular we forgot to deal with some things that can cause hardware reconfiguration -- while it is down. While at it we go ahead and add a warning in ieee80211_sta_work() if its run while the suspend->resume cycle is in effect. This should not happen and if it does it would indicate there is a bug lurking in either mac80211 or mac80211 drivers. With this now wpa_supplicant doesn't blink when I go to suspend and resume where as before there where issues with some timers running during the suspend->resume cycle. This caused a lot of incorrect assumptions and would at times bring back the device in an incoherent, but mostly recoverable, state. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changedJohannes Berg2009-05-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes config_interface and rolls all the information it previously passed to drivers into bss_info_changed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use cfg80211s BSS infrastructureJohannes Berg2009-02-131-10/+0
| | | | | | | | Remove all the code from mac80211 to keep track of BSSes and use the cfg80211-provided code completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Add capability to enable/disable beaconingJohannes Berg2009-01-291-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a flag to notify drivers to start and stop beaconing when needed, for example, during a scan run. Based on Sujith's first patch to do the same, but now disables beaconing for all virtual interfaces while scanning, has a separate change flag and tracks user-space requests. Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* wireless: restrict to 32 legacy ratesJohannes Berg2009-01-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Since the standards only define 12 legacy rates, 32 is certainly a sane upper limit and we don't need to use u64 everywhere. Add sanity checking that no more than 32 rates are registered and change the variables to u32 throughout. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* wireless: move mesh config length constantJohannes Berg2008-11-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This is a constant from the 802.11 specification. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: minor code cleanupsJohannes Berg2008-10-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Nothing very interesting, some checkpatch inspired stuff, some other things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: make master iface not wirelessJohannes Berg2008-09-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no need to register the master netdev with cfg80211, in fact, this is quite dangerous and lead to having to add checks for the master interface all over the config handlers. This patch removes the "ieee80211_ptr" from the master iface in favour of having a small netdev_priv() associated with the master interface that stores the ieee80211_local pointer. Because of this, a lot of code in the configuration handlers can go away. To make this patch easier to verify I have also removed a number of wiphy_priv() calls in favour of getting the sdata first and then the local pointer from that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: clean up scan namespaceJohannes Berg2008-09-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Most of the scan functions are called ieee80211_sta_scan_* or similar, make clean it up so they are all just called ieee80211_scan_*. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix work raceJohannes Berg2008-09-151-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we stop an interface, the work on it may still be pending or running. We do cancel the timer, but we do not currently protect against the work struct. The race is very unlikely to hit -- it'll happen only when the driver is using mac80211's workqueue to run long-running tasks and the sta/mesh works are delayed for quite a bit. This patch fixes it by cancelling the work explicitly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: split off mesh handling entirelyJohannes Berg2008-09-151-55/+273
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch splits off mesh handling from the STA/IBSS. Unfortunately it increases mesh code size a bit, but I think it makes things clearer. The patch also reduces per-interface run-time memory usage. Also clean up a few places where ifdef is not required. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-08-291-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/mlme.c
| * net/mac80211/mesh.c: correct the argument to __mesh_table_freeJulia Lawall2008-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the function mesh_table_grow, it is the new table not the argument table that should be freed if the function fails (cf commit bd9b448f4c0a514559bdae4ca18ca3e8cd999c6d) The semantic match that detects this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; expression E,f; position p1,p2,p3; identifier l; statement S; @@ x = mesh_table_alloc@p1(...) ... if (x == NULL) S ... when != E = x when != mesh_table_free(x) goto@p2 l; ... when != E = x when != f(...,x,...) when any ( return \(0\|x\); | return@p3 ...; ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << r.p2; p3 << r.p3; @@ print "%s: call on line %s not freed or saved before return on line %s via line %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p3[0].line,p2[0].line) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | replace net_device arguments with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriateJasper Bryant-Greene2008-08-221-18/+11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate. It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device. If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway, the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat. This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be provided. Signed-off-by: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Consolidate hash kfree-ing in mesh.c.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-211-6/+9
| | | | | | | | There are already two places, that kfree the mesh_table and its buckets. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Merge error paths in mesh_table_grow().Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-211-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | This is the first (of two) clean ups after the fixes above. The err variable is not even required after this cleaning. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Prepare mesh_table_grow to failing copy_node callback.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-211-2/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | The mesh_path_node_copy() performs kmalloc() and thus - may fail (well, it does not now, but I'm fixing this right now). Its caller - the mesh_table_grow() - isn't prepared for such a trick yet. This preparation is just flush the new hash and make copy_node() return an int value. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix incorrect mesh header lengthLuis Carlos Cobo2008-05-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This should have been updated at the same time we were transitioning from 3 byte to 4 byte mesh sequence number. Pointed out by Johannes Berg. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use 4-byte mesh sequence numberLuis Carlos Cobo2008-04-301-12/+5
| | | | | | | This follows the new 802.11s/D2.0 draft. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Revert "mac80211: use a struct for bss->mesh_config"John W. Linville2008-04-081-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 6c4711b4697d93424e4b1f76a9929ba844d714a5. That patch breaks mesh config comparison between beacons/probe reponses, so every beacon from a mesh network would be added as a new bss. Since the comparison has to be performed for every received beacon I believe it is best to save the mesh config in a format easy to compare, rather than do a bunch of unaligned accesses to compare field by field. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use a struct for bss->mesh_configLuis Carlos Cobo2008-04-011-4/+0
| | | | | | | | This allows cleaner code when accesing bss->mesh_config components. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add PLINK_ prefix and kernel doc to enum plink_stateLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-3/+3
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move comment to better locationLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-5/+5
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure accessJohannes Berg2008-03-061-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is now somewhat understandable. This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under RTNL and frees the key. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: clean up mesh codeJohannes Berg2008-03-061-0/+67
| | | | | | | Various cleanups, reducing the #ifdef mess and other things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: support functions for meshLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-0/+383
The two important features coded in mesh.c are: Recently Multicast Cache: in on-demand HWMP, multicast traffic is retransmitted by every receiving node. Even though a mesh TTL counter avoids infinite loops, it is also necessary to avoid traffic explosion by keeping a cache of multicast mesh frame that have been received recently. With this feature, maximum number of retransmissions of a multicast frame for the case of N nodes within the range of each other would be N. Without it, the maximum number of retransmissions would be in the order of N^(MESH_TTL - 1). Code to support mesh tables. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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