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{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Add support of setting non-forwarding entity in Mesh

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A mesh node that joins the mesh network is by default a forwarding entity. This patch allows
the mesh node to set as non-forwarding entity. Whenever dot11MeshForwarding is set to 0, the
mesh node can prevent itself from forwarding the traffic which is not destined to him.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Chun-Yeow Yeoh
2012-01-21 01:02:16 +08:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 2da8f419e7
commit 94f9065648
7 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/nl80211.h
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@@ -2104,6 +2104,9 @@ enum nl80211_mntr_flags {
* TUs) during which a mesh STA can send only one Action frame containing a
* PERR element.
*
* @NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING: set Mesh STA as forwarding or non-forwarding
* or forwarding entity (default is TRUE - forwarding entity)
*
* @NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_MAX: highest possible mesh configuration attribute
*
* @__NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
@@ -2128,6 +2131,7 @@ enum nl80211_meshconf_params {
NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_RANN_INTERVAL,
NL80211_MESHCONF_GATE_ANNOUNCEMENTS,
NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_PERR_MIN_INTERVAL,
NL80211_MESHCONF_FORWARDING,
/* keep last */
__NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,