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authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>2015-07-14 15:31:58 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2015-07-17 16:47:11 +0300
commita69bd8e60b02946896c097439b94eb77c0c2c9e4 (patch)
treeb5081e7acefb264b2b1272f26dcdc47df6fe9133 /net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
parentfa87a6566ca8f17a92ba81980bd47c456262907c (diff)
downloadlinux-a69bd8e60b02946896c097439b94eb77c0c2c9e4.tar.xz
mac80211: mesh: separate plid and aid concepts
According to 802.11-2012 13.3.1, a mesh STA should assign an AID upon receipt of a mesh peering open frame rather than using the link id of the peer. Using the peer link id has two potential issues: it may not be unique among the peers, and by its nature it is random, so the TIM may not compress well. In preparation for allocating it properly, use sta->sta.aid, but keep the existing behavior of using the plid in the aid we send. Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
index 29747f92b9b0..90a268abea17 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_ps.c
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ void ieee80211_mps_frame_release(struct sta_info *sta,
if (sta->mesh->plink_state == NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB)
has_buffered = ieee80211_check_tim(elems->tim, elems->tim_len,
- sta->mesh->llid);
+ sta->mesh->aid);
if (has_buffered)
mps_dbg(sta->sdata, "%pM indicates buffered frames\n",