mac80211: mesh gate implementation

In this implementation, a mesh gate is a root node with a certain bit
set in its RANN flags. The mpath to this root node is marked as a path
to a gate, and added to our list of known gates for this if_mesh. Once a
path discovery process fails, we forward the unresolved frames to a
known gate. Thanks to Luis Rodriguez for refactoring and bug fix help.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 03cfbf393a63..37f95f2e10f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -633,6 +633,10 @@ struct ieee80211_rann_ie {
         u32 rann_metric;
 } __attribute__ ((packed));
 
+enum ieee80211_rann_flags {
+        RANN_FLAG_IS_GATE = 1 << 0,
+};
+
 #define WLAN_SA_QUERY_TR_ID_LEN 2
 
 struct ieee80211_mgmt {