mac80211: fix unnecessary beacon update after peering status change

ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify is called everytime a peer link is established
or closed, because the accepting_plinks flag in the meshconf IE *might* have changed.

With this patch the corresponding functions return the BSS_CHANGED_BEACON flag when a beacon update is necessary.

Also it makes mesh_accept_plinks_update the common place to update the accepting_plinks flag.
mesh_accept_plinks_update is called upon plink change and also periodically from ieee80211_mesh_housekeeping.
Thus, it also picks up changes of local->num_sta.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Marco Porsch
2012-08-08 07:58:43 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent faa97bd4a4
commit df32381896
3 changed files with 33 additions and 34 deletions
+1 -1
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@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ void mesh_neighbour_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
u8 *hw_addr,
struct ieee802_11_elems *ie);
bool mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(struct ieee802_11_elems *ie);
void mesh_accept_plinks_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
u32 mesh_accept_plinks_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
void mesh_plink_broken(struct sta_info *sta);
void mesh_plink_deactivate(struct sta_info *sta);
int mesh_plink_open(struct sta_info *sta);