From: Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@burton-krahn.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:24:40 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mrp: add periodictimer to allow retries when packets get lost
X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc4~30^2~48
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9fe34f5d920b183ec063550e0f4ec854aa373316;p=pandora-kernel.git

mrp: add periodictimer to allow retries when packets get lost

MRP doesn't implement the periodictimer in 802.1Q, so it never retries
if packets get lost.  I ran into this problem when MRP sent a MVRP
JoinIn before the interface was fully up.  The JoinIn was lost, MRP
didn't retry, and MVRP registration failed.

Tested against Juniper QFabric switches

Signed-off-by: Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@burton-krahn.com>
Acked-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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