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| author | Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> | 2012-01-20 21:02:16 +0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-01-27 23:56:56 +0400 |
| commit | 94f9065648a2645b28187b44ec7778c30cf58758 (patch) | |
| tree | 734ee883e3fbd99de04240da97716d773d64bb6d /include | |
| parent | 2da8f419e78a0ebccc91c095328278fe668a7932 (diff) | |
| download | linux-94f9065648a2645b28187b44ec7778c30cf58758.tar.xz | |
{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Add support of setting non-forwarding entity in Mesh
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nl80211.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h index 0f5ff3739820..4f98fae13307 100644 --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h @@ -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, diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 208a7b5f8d49..281899167d2d 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ struct mesh_config { * mesh gate, but not necessarily using the gate announcement protocol. * Still keeping the same nomenclature to be in sync with the spec. */ bool dot11MeshGateAnnouncementProtocol; + bool dot11MeshForwarding; }; /** |