cfg80211: add support to probe unexercised mesh link
Adding support to allow mesh HWMP to measure link metrics on unexercised direct mesh path by sending some data frames to other mesh points which are not currently selected as a primary traffic path but only 1 hop away. The absence of the primary path to the chosen node makes it necessary to apply some form of marking on a chosen packet stream so that the packets can be properly steered to the selected node for testing, and not by the regular mesh path lookup. Tested-by: Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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@@ -1286,4 +1286,17 @@ static inline int rdev_update_owe_info(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
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return ret;
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}
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static inline int
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rdev_probe_mesh_link(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
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struct net_device *dev, const u8 *dest,
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const void *buf, size_t len)
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{
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int ret;
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trace_rdev_probe_mesh_link(&rdev->wiphy, dev, dest, buf, len);
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ret = rdev->ops->probe_mesh_link(&rdev->wiphy, dev, buf, len);
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trace_rdev_return_int(&rdev->wiphy, ret);
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return ret;
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}
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#endif /* __CFG80211_RDEV_OPS */
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