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mac80211: don't initiate path discovery when forwarding frame with unknown DA

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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>
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Thomas Pedersen
2011-11-24 17:15:25 -08:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent dca7e9430c
commit 0cfda8519c
5 changed files with 79 additions and 77 deletions
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@@ -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);