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/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
index eb23fc639b2b..dd1c19319f0a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
@@ -226,6 +226,8 @@ void mesh_mgmt_ies_add(struct sk_buff *skb,
 void mesh_rmc_free(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
 int mesh_rmc_init(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
 void ieee80211s_init(void);
+void ieee80211s_update_metric(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+                struct sta_info *stainfo, struct sk_buff *skb);
 void ieee80211s_stop(void);
 void ieee80211_mesh_init_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
 ieee80211_rx_result