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mac80211: mesh: separate plid and aid concepts

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According to 802.11-2012 13.3.1, a mesh STA should assign an AID
upon receipt of a mesh peering open frame rather than using the link
id of the peer.  Using the peer link id has two potential issues:
it may not be unique among the peers, and by its nature it is random,
so the TIM may not compress well.

In preparation for allocating it properly, use sta->sta.aid, but keep
the existing behavior of using the plid in the aid we send.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Bob Copeland
2015-07-14 08:31:58 -04:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent fa87a6566c
commit a69bd8e60b
4 changed files with 23 additions and 15 deletions
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net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
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@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ void ieee80211_mps_frame_release(struct sta_info *sta,
if (sta->mesh->plink_state == NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB)
has_buffered = ieee80211_check_tim(elems->tim, elems->tim_len,
sta->mesh->llid);
sta->mesh->aid);
if (has_buffered)
mps_dbg(sta->sdata, "%pM indicates buffered frames\n",