mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.
authorJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:15:50 +0000 (12:15 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:14:01 +0000 (09:14 -0400)
commit5815814bfad5b3f88ff58ab90aaf09dd69ab8da2
tree8779b7f735fc208ca9f9375223e51e4c06bdb902
parentd403a1c66ea1fb47ae61921eac278d4154f7ca8a
mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.

This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades
below a certain threshold.  This results in a faster path recovery time than
by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken
links.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c