mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.

Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric.  This used to
be done inside the rate control module.  This patch breaks the dependency
between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm.  Mesh will now work
independently of the chosen rate control algorithm.

The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for
each mesh peer station.  If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the
peer link is marked as broken.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 3302df96f8d4..f80efd7ff5ec 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
                 }
 
                 rate_control_tx_status(local, sband, sta, skb);
+                if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sta->sdata->vif))
+                        ieee80211s_update_metric(local, sta, skb);
         }
 
         rcu_read_unlock();