On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 13:26 +0200, Henning Rogge wrote: >> The following patch adds NL80211_CMD_GET_MPP as a new nl80211 command that >> allows to query the content of the 'mesh proxy path' table of mac80211s via >> 'get' or 'dump' operation. > > Is this really something that should be a generic nl80211 operation, > rather than say debugfs? No, this should be (in my opinion) a nl80211 operation. It is directly comparable to "station get/dump" and "mpath get/dump". > Could this be useful to other devices implementing the 11s, or is it > more of a mac80211 implementation detail? Yes, this could be relevant to all 11s implementations. Without this data you cannot determine where your data packages will be going (similar to the routing table/fib, just layer-2). In my case I need this feature to correlate the layer-2 data I got from a "station dump" with the mac addresses of bridged devices. I am trying to implement a DLEP-style radio/router system (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-dlep-06), which combines a IP router with a bridged radio (both connected via ethernet). The routers can talk directly to each other, but to map the layer-2 data from the radio (which refers to the wifi MAC addresses) to the router communication, I need the mapping table. Henning Rogge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
