From 5ab92e7fe49ad74293b50fb9e6f25be5521e2f68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rajkumar Manoharan Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:47:24 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 25f70dd2b583..6f09d1500960 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -1070,6 +1070,21 @@ * OWE AKM by the host drivers that implement SME but rely * on the user space for the cryptographic/DH IE processing in AP mode. * + * @NL80211_CMD_PROBE_MESH_LINK: The requirement for mesh link metric + * refreshing, is that from one mesh point we be able to send some data + * frames to other mesh points which are not currently selected as a + * primary traffic path, but which are 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. Further, the packets must be of type data + * so that the rate control (often embedded in firmware) is used for + * rate selection. + * + * Here attribute %NL80211_ATTR_MAC is used to specify connected mesh + * peer MAC address and %NL80211_ATTR_FRAME is used to specify the frame + * content. The frame is ethernet data. + * * @NL80211_CMD_MAX: highest used command number * @__NL80211_CMD_AFTER_LAST: internal use */ @@ -1292,6 +1307,8 @@ enum nl80211_commands { NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_OWE_INFO, + NL80211_CMD_PROBE_MESH_LINK, + /* add new commands above here */ /* used to define NL80211_CMD_MAX below */ -- cgit v1.2.3