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{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering

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Mesh peer links are established only if average rssi of the peer
candidate satisfies the threshold. This is not in 802.11s specification
but was requested by David Fulgham, an open80211s user. This is a way to avoid
marginal peer links with stations that are barely within range.

This patch adds a new mesh configuration parameter, mesh_rssi_threshold. This
feature is supported only for hardwares that report signal in dBm.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Ashok Nagarajan
2012-02-28 17:04:08 -08:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 5809802180
commit 5533513784
7 changed files with 39 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -1314,6 +1314,14 @@ static int ieee80211_update_mesh_config(struct wiphy *wiphy,
}
if (_chg_mesh_attr(NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING, mask))
conf->dot11MeshForwarding = nconf->dot11MeshForwarding;
if (_chg_mesh_attr(NL80211_MESHCONF_RSSI_THRESHOLD, mask)) {
/* our RSSI threshold implementation is supported only for
* devices that report signal in dBm.
*/
if (!(sdata->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM))
return -ENOTSUPP;
conf->rssi_threshold = nconf->rssi_threshold;
}
return 0;
}