Commit 5bc03b28 authored by Felix Fietkau's avatar Felix Fietkau Committed by Johannes Berg
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nl80211: clarify comment for mesh PLINK_BLOCKED state 



When a mesh link is in blocked state, it is very useful to still allow
auth requests from the peer to re-establish it.
When a remote node is power cycled, the peer state can easily end up
in blocked state if multiple auth attempts are performed. Since this
can lead to several minutes of downtime, we should accept auth attempts
of the peer after it has come back.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220105147.88625-1-nbd@nbd.name


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent acb99b9b

include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h

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@@ -5623,7 +5623,7 @@ enum nl80211_if_combination_attrs { 
 * @NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB: mesh peer link is established

 * @NL80211_PLINK_HOLDING: mesh peer link is being closed or cancelled

 * @NL80211_PLINK_BLOCKED: all frames transmitted from this mesh

 *	plink are discarded

 *	plink are discarded, except for authentication frames

 * @NUM_NL80211_PLINK_STATES: number of peer link states

 * @MAX_NL80211_PLINK_STATES: highest numerical value of plink states

 */