cfg80211: add support to probe unexercised mesh link
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:47:24 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:02:11 +0000 (13:02 +0200)
commit5ab92e7fe49ad74293b50fb9e6f25be5521e2f68
tree9b0559ea110d5c01f08adee634d6d36f2ceb771d
parent387bc002250b31cf8012b736e482c9f65cbf7dd5
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>
include/net/cfg80211.h
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/nl80211.c
net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
net/wireless/trace.h