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David S. Miller
9f6ec8d697 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
	net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
2011-06-20 22:29:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5629937872 Linux 3.0-rc4 2011-06-20 20:25:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
79568f5be0 vfs: i_state needs to be 'unsigned long' for now
Commit 13e12d14e2 ("vfs: reorganize 'struct inode' layout a bit")
moved things around a bit changed i_state to be unsigned int instead of
unsigned long.  That was to help structure layout for the 64-bit case,
and shrink 'struct inode' a bit (admittedly that only happened when
spinlock debugging was on and i_flags didn't pack with i_lock).

However, Meelis Roos reports that this results in unaligned exceptions
on sprc, and it turns out that the bit-locking primitives that we use
for the I_NEW bit want to use the bitops.  Which want 'unsigned long',
not 'unsigned int'.

We really should fix the bit locking code to not have that kind of
requirement, but that's a much bigger change.  So for now, revert that
field back to 'unsigned long' (but keep the other re-ordering changes
from the commit that caused this).

Andi points out that we have played games with this in 'struct page', so
it's solvable with other hacks too, but since right now the struct inode
size advantage only happens with some rare config options, it's not
worth fighting.

It _would_ be worth fixing the bitlocking code, though.  Especially
since there is no type safety in the bitlocking code (this never caused
any warnings, and worked fine on x86-64, because the bitlocks take a
'void *' and x86-64 doesn't care that deeply about alignment).  So it's
currently a very easy problem to trigger by mistake and never notice.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-20 20:13:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f5fc5567dd Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm/radeon/kms/r6xx+: voltage fixes
  drm/nouveau: drop leftover debugging
  drm/radeon: avoid warnings from r600/eg irq handlers on powered off card.
  drm/radeon/kms: add missing param for dce3.2 DP transmitter setup
  drm/radeon/kms/atom: fix duallink on some early DCE3.2 cards
  drm/nouveau: fix assumption that semaphore dmaobj is valid in x-chan sync
  drm/nv50/disp: fix gamma with page flipping overlay turned on
  drm/nouveau/pm: Prevent overflow in nouveau_perf_init()
  drm/nouveau: fix big-endian switch
2011-06-20 20:12:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
85d45adef0 Merge branch 'msm-fix' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/davidb/linux-msm
* 'msm-fix' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/davidb/linux-msm:
  msm: timer: Fix DGT rate on 8960 and 8660
  msm: timer: compensate for timer shift in msm_read_timer_count
  msm: timer: Fix SMP build error
2011-06-20 20:11:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eda0841094 Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd4: fix break_lease flags on nfsd open
  nfsd: link returns nfserr_delay when breaking lease
  nfsd: v4 support requires CRYPTO
  nfsd: fix dependency of nfsd on auth_rpcgss
2011-06-20 20:10:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e158d2198 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
  pxa168_eth: fix race in transmit path.
  ipv4, ping: Remove duplicate icmp.h include
  netxen: fix race in skb->len access
  sgi-xp: fix a use after free
  hp100: fix an skb->len race
  netpoll: copy dev name of slaves to struct netpoll
  ipv4: fix multicast losses
  r8169: fix static initializers.
  inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit()
  gigaset: call module_put before restart of if_open()
  farsync: add module_put to error path in fst_open()
  net: rfs: enable RFS before first data packet is received
  fs_enet: fix freescale FCC ethernet dp buffer alignment
  netdev: bfin_mac: fix memory leak when freeing dma descriptors
  vlan: don't call ndo_vlan_rx_register on hardware that doesn't have vlan support
  caif: Bugfix - XOFF removed channel from caif-mux
  tun: teach the tun/tap driver to support netpoll
  dp83640: drop PHY status frames in the driver.
  dp83640: fix phy status frame event parsing
  phylib: Allow BCM63XX PHY to be selected only on BCM63XX.
  ...
2011-06-20 20:10:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3669820650 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  devcgroup_inode_permission: take "is it a device node" checks to inlined wrapper
  fix comment in generic_permission()
  kill obsolete comment for follow_down()
  proc_sys_permission() is OK in RCU mode
  reiserfs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  proc_fd_permission() is doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  nilfs2_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  logfs doesn't need ->permission() at all
  coda_ioctl_permission() is safe in RCU mode
  cifs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  bad_inode_permission() is safe from RCU mode
  ubifs: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ubifs_mount()
2011-06-20 20:09:15 -07:00
Alex Deucher
a377e187df drm/radeon/kms/r6xx+: voltage fixes
0xff01 is not an actual voltage value, but a flag
for the driver.  If the power state as that value,
skip setting the voltage.

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2011-06-21 09:38:25 +10:00
Stephen Boyd
fdb9c3cd51 msm: timer: Fix DGT rate on 8960 and 8660
The DGT runs at 27 MHz divided by 4 on 8660 and 8960.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
2011-06-20 16:30:07 -07:00
Richard Cochran
384420409d pxa168_eth: fix race in transmit path.
Because the socket buffer is freed in the completion interrupt, it is not
safe to access it after submitting it to the hardware.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Sachin Sanap <ssanap@marvell.com>
Cc: Zhangfei Gao <zgao6@marvell.com>
Cc: Philip Rakity <prakity@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 14:02:07 -07:00
Sebastian Poehn
4aa3a71555 gianfar v5: implement nfc
This patch adds all missing functionalities for nfc except GRXFH. There is so much code because hardware has not a TCAM.
Further hardware rule space is very limited. So I had to extensively use
optimization features. Both reasons lead to the necessity to hold all
online flows in a linked-list.

Change-log:
# Some suggestions by Joe Perches applied (thanks!)
# Shorted some logs
# Use memcmp() for comparing

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn@belden.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:57:59 -07:00
Richard Cochran
d13d6bffb4 ucc_geth: enable transmit time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) transmit time stamping.
Compile tested only.

Cc: Shlomi Gridish <gridish@freescale.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:55 -07:00
Richard Cochran
1f6e44a6dc pxa168_eth: enable transmit time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) transmit time stamping
Compile tested only.

Cc: Sachin Sanap <ssanap@marvell.com>
Cc: Zhangfei Gao <zgao6@marvell.com>
Cc: Philip Rakity <prakity@marvell.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <markb@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:55 -07:00
Richard Cochran
8c0069ae3a smsc911x: enable transmit time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) transmit time stamping.
Compile tested only.

Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:54 -07:00
Richard Cochran
e309721159 fs_enet: enable transmit time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) transmit time stamping.
Compile tested only.

Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:54 -07:00
Richard Cochran
e072092fc7 macb: enable transmit time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) transmit time stamping
Compile tested only.

Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:54 -07:00
Richard Cochran
d6cf07327e fec_mpc52xx: enable transmit and receive time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) time stamping. Software
time stamping using the SO_TIMESTAMPING API was tested and found to be
working on the LITE5200B board.

Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:54 -07:00
Richard Cochran
93e0ed158c ll_temac: enable transmit and receive time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) time stamping. Since this MAC
is based on phylib, adding the hooks makes hardware time stamping in the
phy possible.

Compile tested only.

Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:54 -07:00
Richard Cochran
570773c580 emaclite: enable transmit and receive time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) time stamping. Since this
MAC uses phylib, adding the hooks make hardware time stamping in the phy
possible.

Compile tested only.

Cc: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:53 -07:00
Richard Cochran
d76b7e2faa lib8390: enable transmit and receive time stamping.
This patch enables software (and phy device) time stamping. This file is
included by drivers/net/ax88796.c, which is based on phylib. So, this
patch makes hardware time stamping in the PHY possible.

Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:53 -07:00
Richard Cochran
238442f6bc net: export the receive time stamping hook for non-NAPI drivers
Ethernet MAC drivers based on phylib (but not using NAPI) can
enable hardware time stamping in phy devices by calling netif_rx()
conditionally based on a call to skb_defer_rx_timestamp().

This commit exports that function so that drivers calling it may
be compiled as modules.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:56:53 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
8ad2475e35 ipv4, ping: Remove duplicate icmp.h include
Remove the duplicate inclusion of net/icmp.h from net/ipv4/ping.c

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:04:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c82b9d7fe7 netxen: fix race in skb->len access
As soon as skb is given to hardware, TX completion can free skb under
us.
Therefore, we should update dev stats before kicking the device.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:04:12 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
306ff6eb8e myricom: remove stats_lock
stats_lock is non useless, lets remove it.

Also, ndo_get_stats64() doesnt have to clear the stats, caller takes
care of this.

Note: folding 32bit fields in 64bit one is problematic when one of 32bit
values wraps : SNMP reader will see a ~2^32 back change in a 64bit
value. A future patch should fix this.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
CC: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Acked-by: Jon Mason <mason@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 13:02:36 -07:00
David S. Miller
eac56465b8 Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/ecsv/linux-merge 2011-06-20 12:59:37 -07:00
Jon Mason
1b9c4134c1 myri_sbus: remove driver
Remove the myri_sbus driver. Why?
* There is no possibility of ethernet mode on this adapter, so it's
  Myrinet only.
* It won't inter-op with modern versions of Myrinet, and thus can only
  work with legacy adapters.
* There are no in-kernel Linux drivers for the PCI version of this
  adapter, so it only can work on ~15 year old Sun hardware.

It's long in the tooth, let's take it to the knackers.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-20 12:51:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ef46222e7b Merge branch 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/setup: Fix for incorrect xen_extra_mem_start.
  xen: When calling power_off, don't call the halt function.
  xen: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP is not defined.
  xen: support CONFIG_MAXSMP
  xen: partially revert "xen: set max_pfn_mapped to the last pfn mapped"
2011-06-20 09:01:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c01ad40819 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: sh_keysc - 8x8 MODE_6 fix
  Input: omap-keypad - add missing input_sync()
  Input: evdev - try to wake up readers only if we have full packet
  Input: properly assign return value of clamp() macro.
2011-06-20 08:59:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
90a800de0a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: avoid delayed metadata items during commits
  btrfs: fix uninitialized return value
  btrfs: fix wrong reservation when doing delayed inode operations
  btrfs: Remove unused sysfs code
  btrfs: fix dereference of ERR_PTR value
  Btrfs: fix relocation races
  Btrfs: set no_trans_join after trying to expand the transaction
  Btrfs: protect the pending_snapshots list with trans_lock
  Btrfs: fix path leakage on subvol deletion
  Btrfs: drop the delalloc_bytes check in shrink_delalloc
  Btrfs: check the return value from set_anon_super
2011-06-20 08:58:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
10e18e6230 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/3.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: Fix register corruption in pvclock_scale_delta
  KVM: MMU: fix opposite condition in mapping_level_dirty_bitmap
  KVM: VMX: do not overwrite uptodate vcpu->arch.cr3 on KVM_SET_SREGS
  KVM: MMU: Fix build warnings in walk_addr_generic()
2011-06-20 08:58:07 -07:00
Al Viro
482e0cd3db devcgroup_inode_permission: take "is it a device node" checks to inlined wrapper
inode_permission() calls devcgroup_inode_permission() and almost all such
calls are _not_ for device nodes; let's at least keep the common path
straight...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:46:04 -04:00
Al Viro
8e833fd2e1 fix comment in generic_permission()
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE is enough for MAY_EXEC on directory, even if
no exec bits are set.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:45:56 -04:00
Al Viro
6291176bcd kill obsolete comment for follow_down()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:45:49 -04:00
Al Viro
1aec7036d0 proc_sys_permission() is OK in RCU mode
nothing blocking there, since all instances of sysctl
->permissions() method are non-blocking - both of them,
that is.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:45:25 -04:00
Al Viro
1d29b5a2ed reiserfs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
nothing blocking other than generic_permission() (and
check_acl callback does bail out in RCU mode).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:45:21 -04:00
Al Viro
cf12791116 proc_fd_permission() is doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
nothing blocking except generic_permission()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:50 -04:00
Al Viro
730e908f35 nilfs2_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
Nothing blocking except for generic_permission().  Which will DTRT.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:33 -04:00
Al Viro
a63ab94d67 logfs doesn't need ->permission() at all
... and never did, what with its ->permission() being what we do by default
when ->permission is NULL...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:26 -04:00
Al Viro
6b419951f1 coda_ioctl_permission() is safe in RCU mode
return (mask & MAY_EXEC) ? -EACCES : 0; is non-blocking...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:19 -04:00
Al Viro
ec12781f19 cifs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
nothing potentially blocking except generic_permission(), which
will DTRT

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:07 -04:00
Al Viro
1712c20dae bad_inode_permission() is safe from RCU mode
return -EIO; is *not* a blocking operation, thank you very much.
Nick, what the hell have you been smoking?

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:44:00 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
185bf87393 ubifs: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ubifs_mount()
d251ed271d "ubifs: fix sget races" left out the goto from this
error path so the static checkers complain that we're dereferencing
"sb" when it's an ERR_PTR.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:42:34 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
105f462210 nfsd4: fix break_lease flags on nfsd open
Thanks to Casey Bodley for pointing out that on a read open we pass 0,
instead of O_RDONLY, to break_lease, with the result that a read open is
treated like a write open for the purposes of lease breaking!

Reported-by: Casey Bodley <cbodley@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2011-06-20 10:38:01 -04:00
Antonio Quartulli
43676ab590 batman-adv: improved gateway tq-based selection
If a client issues a DHCPREQUEST for renewal, the packet is dropped
if the old destination (the old gateway for the client) TQ is smaller
than the current best gateway TQ less GW_THRESHOLD

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:41 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
19595e054d batman-adv: throw uevent in userspace on gateway add/change/del event
In case of new default gw, changing the default gw or deleting the default gw a
uevent is triggered with type=gw, action=add/change/del and
data={GW_ORIG_ADDRESS} (if any).

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:38 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
2265c14108 batman-adv: gateway election code refactoring
The gateway election mechanism has been a little revised. Now the
gw_election is trigered by an atomic_t flag (gw_reselect) which is set
to 1 in case of election needed, avoding to set curr_gw to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:35 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
c6bda689c2 batman-adv: add wrapper function to throw uevent in userspace
Using throw_uevent() is now possible to trigger uevent signal that can
be recognised in userspace. Uevents will be triggered through the
/devices/virtual/net/{MESH_IFACE} kobject.

A triggered uevent has three properties:
- type: the event class. Who generates the event (only 'gw' is currently
  defined). Corresponds to the BATTYPE uevent variable.
- action: the associated action with the event ('add'/'change'/'del' are
  currently defined). Corresponds to the BATACTION uevent variable.
- data: any useful data for the userspace. Corresponds to the BATDATA
  uevent variable.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:33 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
7683fdc1e8 batman-adv: protect the local and the global trans-tables with rcu
The local and the global translation-tables are now lock free and rcu
protected.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:30 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
cc47f66e6b batman-adv: improved roaming mechanism
With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming,
an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point
the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting
mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to
correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet
drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover
its connections.

A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this
issue.

This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the
client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this
way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node
can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will
then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher
information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery
delay.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:27 +02:00