mac80211: fix unnecessary beacon update after peering status change
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify is called everytime a peer link is established
or closed, because the accepting_plinks flag in the meshconf IE *might* have changed.
With this patch the corresponding functions return the BSS_CHANGED_BEACON flag when a beacon update is necessary.
Also it makes mesh_accept_plinks_update the common place to update the accepting_plinks flag.
mesh_accept_plinks_update is called upon plink change and also periodically from ieee80211_mesh_housekeeping.
Thus, it also picks up changes of local->num_sta.
Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
index faaa39b..13fd5b5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
u8 *hw_addr,
struct ieee802_11_elems *ie);
bool mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(struct ieee802_11_elems *ie);
-void mesh_accept_plinks_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
+u32 mesh_accept_plinks_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
void mesh_plink_broken(struct sta_info *sta);
void mesh_plink_deactivate(struct sta_info *sta);
int mesh_plink_open(struct sta_info *sta);