Hi,
I'd like to retract this patch. Considering that it will break
backwards compatibility with older kernels (which I neglected to
mention that in the commit message) and it's not really critical at
this time, I think it's a bit premature. Let's call it more a RFC
than a patch.
That said, about a month ago someone on this list complained about the
fact that WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG and WLAN_EID_MESH_ID numbers overlapped
with WLAN_EID_AP_CHAN_REPORT and WLAN_EID_NEIGHBOR_REPORT numbers.
That's what prompted this patch. I don't think that this patch fixes
the actual problem he had with mesh not working, but he might want to
try this just to eliminate that variable.
I apologize for the inconvenience. I'll resubmit this patch at a more
appropriate time in the future.
Thanks,
- Steve
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Steve deRosier <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The old values conflicted with ANA approved values. The new values
> were chosen to be consistent with those for the ANA request plan
> for 802.11s.
>
> The Peer Link IE no longer exists in draft standards, replaced by
> the Peer Management IE. Leaving the old definition in was prudent
> until mesh code can be changed to match.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve deRosier <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/ieee80211.h | 23 +++++++++++++----------
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
> index 97b2eae..1ed60b5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
> @@ -1142,17 +1142,20 @@ enum ieee80211_eid {
> /* 802.11s
> *
> * All mesh EID numbers are pending IEEE 802.11 ANA approval.
> - * The numbers have been incremented from those suggested in
> - * 802.11s/D2.0 so that MESH_CONFIG does not conflict with
> - * EXT_SUPP_RATES.
> + * The numbers have been taken from ANA request plan for 802.11s
> + *
> + * Note that the Peer Link IE has been replaced with the similar
> + * Peer Management IE. We will keep the former definition until mesh
> + * code is changed to comply with latest 802.11s drafts.
> */
> - WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG = 51,
> - WLAN_EID_MESH_ID = 52,
> - WLAN_EID_PEER_LINK = 55,
> - WLAN_EID_PREQ = 68,
> - WLAN_EID_PREP = 69,
> - WLAN_EID_PERR = 70,
> - WLAN_EID_RANN = 49, /* compatible with FreeBSD */
> + WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG = 113,
> + WLAN_EID_MESH_ID = 114,
> + WLAN_EID_PEER_MGMT = 115,
> + WLAN_EID_PEER_LINK = 55, /* no longer in 802.11s drafts */
> + WLAN_EID_PREQ = 130,
> + WLAN_EID_PREP = 131,
> + WLAN_EID_PERR = 132,
> + WLAN_EID_RANN = 126,
>
> WLAN_EID_PWR_CONSTRAINT = 32,
> WLAN_EID_PWR_CAPABILITY = 33,
> --
> 1.7.0
>
>
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