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| author |   Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> | 2008-08-05 19:34:52 +0200 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-08-07 09:49:04 -0400 |
| commit | e32f85f7b917456265d4c30d15f734c4912cfa6a (patch) | |
| tree | 14d48a5e3d4b279966f2c15b0a3e5f909bc71d58 /CREDITS | |
| parent | p54: Fix for TX sequence number problem (diff) | |
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mac80211: fix use of skb->cb for mesh forwarding
Now we deal with mesh forwarding before the 802.11->802.3 conversion, thus
eliminating a few unnecessary steps. The next hop lookup is called from
ieee80211_master_start_xmit() instead of subif_start_xmit(). Until the next hop
is found, RA in the frame will be all zeroes for frames originating from the
device. For forwarded frames, RA will contain the TA of the received frame,
which will be necessary to send a path error if a next hop is not found.
Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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