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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Do not send mesh HWMP PREQ if HWMP is disabled

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On 05/03/2020 21:07, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> On 3/5/20 6:04 AM, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
>> From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> When trying to transmit to an unknown destination, the mesh code would
>> unconditionally transmit a HWMP PREQ even if HWMP is not the current
>> path selection algorithm.
>>
> 
> The skb would still get queued onto the mpath->frame_queue. Is it
> this expected? ie. do you have a non-hwmp path selection algorithm which
> will handle it, or are you really checking if path selection is
> disabled?


Well, there is no way to disable path selection, is it ? The only way for
HWMP to be disabled is to use a vendor path selection, right ?
So as soon as userspace adds the path, the skb will be sent.



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