2017-03-01 00:01:30

by Alexis Green

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Subject: [PATCH] iw: Add support for NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_ALWAYS_MAX_DISCOVERIES netlink attribute


This attributes allows configuring mesh to either do only minimum
number of discovery attempts (up to MaxPREretries) or always do
MaxPREretries number of tries even when getting responses.

Signed-off-by: Alexis Green <[email protected]>
---
mesh.c | 3 +++
nl80211.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mesh.c b/mesh.c
index 97f236b..b828408 100644
--- a/mesh.c
+++ b/mesh.c
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ const static struct mesh_param_descr _mesh_param_descrs[] =
_my_nla_put_u16, _parse_u16, _print_u16_in_TUs},
{"mesh_plink_timeout", NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT,
_my_nla_put_u32, _parse_u32, _print_u32_in_seconds},
+ {"mesh_hwmp_always_max_discoveries",
+ NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_ALWAYS_MAX_DISCOVERIES,
+ _my_nla_put_u8, _parse_u8_as_bool, _print_u8},
};

static void print_all_mesh_param_descr(void)
diff --git a/nl80211.h b/nl80211.h
index 56368e9..bb53e8b 100644
--- a/nl80211.h
+++ b/nl80211.h
@@ -3352,6 +3352,8 @@ enum nl80211_mesh_power_mode {
* established peering with for longer than this time (in seconds), then
* remove it from the STA's list of peers. You may set this to 0 to disable
* the removal of the STA. Default is 30 minutes.
+ * @NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_ALWAYS_MAX_DISCOVERIES: whether to always perform
+ * number of discovery attempts equal to MaxPREQretries (default is FALSE)
*
* @__NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/
@@ -3385,6 +3387,7 @@ enum nl80211_meshconf_params {
NL80211_MESHCONF_POWER_MODE,
NL80211_MESHCONF_AWAKE_WINDOW,
NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT,
+ NL80211_MESHCONF_HWMP_ALWAYS_MAX_DISCOVERIES,

/* keep last */
__NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
--
2.5.0.rc3