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| author | Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org> | 2019-04-11 22:47:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2019-04-26 13:02:11 +0200 |
| commit | 5ab92e7fe49ad74293b50fb9e6f25be5521e2f68 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b0559ea110d5c01f08adee634d6d36f2ceb771d /include/net/cfg80211.h | |
| parent | mac80211: Set CAN_REPLACE_PTK0 for SW crypto only drivers (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/cfg80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 944de1802210..298301525f9f 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -3501,6 +3501,9 @@ struct cfg80211_update_owe_info { * @update_owe_info: Provide updated OWE info to driver. Driver implementing SME * but offloading OWE processing to the user space will get the updated * DH IE through this interface. + * + * @probe_mesh_link: Probe direct Mesh peer's link quality by sending data frame + * and overrule HWMP path selection algorithm. */ struct cfg80211_ops { int (*suspend)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct cfg80211_wowlan *wow); @@ -3817,6 +3820,8 @@ struct cfg80211_ops { struct cfg80211_pmsr_request *request); int (*update_owe_info)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, struct cfg80211_update_owe_info *owe_info); + int (*probe_mesh_link)(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, + const u8 *buf, size_t len); }; /* |