From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>,
linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace make meshif mesh gate
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:03:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313175799.4022.23.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG6hwVMAkkv_OAemfEEGx9Tu3PmTqYq7vvBABw45omOXEx_p4A@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20110812_210114_505681_70423402)
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 12:00 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> iw mesh0 set mesh_param mesh_hwmp_rootmode=1
> iw mesh0 set mesh_param mesh_gate_announcements=1
>
> And the connection between the two would only be apparent to someone
> familiar with our limited implementation. So in v2, it's enough to
> just enable mesh gate announcements and root mode will be turned on
> automagically. This gets sort of ugly if say you turn off root mode
> and still expect gate announcements to work, or disable gate
> announcements and now you're still broadcasting as a root node for
> some reason. (we can't really just disable root mode when we turn of
> gate announcements, since the two should be independent). That said,
> this seems preferable to someone doing 'iw mesh0 set mesh_param
> mesh_gate_announcements=1', and then spending an inordinate time
> debugging when it should just work.
Hmm. I wonder if it then makes sense to allow changing this on the fly
at all?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-12 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-09 23:45 [PATCH 0/8] mac80211: add mesh gate forwarding Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 1/8] mac80211: improve mpath debugging Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-10 13:38 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-10 20:11 ` Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-10 20:14 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-10 20:40 ` Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 2/8] mac80211: fix mpath timer NULL function Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-10 13:39 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 3/8] mac80211: mesh locking fixes Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 4/8] mac80211: fix mesh path flushing Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 5/8] mac80211: mesh gate implementation Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-10 13:41 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] {nl,mac}80211: add missing root mode meshconf entries Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 7/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace set RANN interval Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-10 13:47 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-09 23:45 ` [PATCH 8/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace make meshif mesh gate Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-10 13:47 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-10 21:31 ` Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 9:31 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-12 19:00 ` Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 19:03 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-08-12 19:26 ` Javier Cardona
2011-08-12 2:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] mac80211: improve mpath debugging Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] mac80211: fix mpath timer removal Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] mac80211: mesh locking fixes Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] mac80211: fix mesh path flushing Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:53 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] mac80211: mesh gate implementation Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:53 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] {nl,mac}80211: add missing root mode debugfs entries Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:54 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace set RANN interval Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 2:54 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace make meshif mesh gate Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-12 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] mac80211: improve mpath debugging Johannes Berg
2011-08-12 18:12 ` Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-22 18:34 ` John W. Linville
2011-08-22 21:57 ` Thomas Pedersen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-25 1:21 [PATCH 0/8] FIXUP: mesh gates Thomas Pedersen
2011-08-25 1:21 ` [PATCH 8/8] {nl,cfg,mac}80211: let userspace make meshif mesh gate Thomas Pedersen
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