nl80211: Introduce NL80211_MESH_SETUP_USERSPACE_AMPE
authorJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Tue, 3 May 2011 23:57:07 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 11 May 2011 18:37:47 +0000 (14:37 -0400)
commitb130e5cec958bae3867cf6ab09a9b24ba8fada01
tree945eca0ace3d299dfd83de7b7e13c60aa36ba2e9
parentf3a57fd148a4afd3c38f558c5b44972cb29ea8ba
nl80211: Introduce NL80211_MESH_SETUP_USERSPACE_AMPE

Introduce a new configuration option to support AMPE from userspace.

Prior to this series we only supported authentication in userspace: an
authentication daemon would authenticate peer candidates in userspace
and hand them over to the kernel.  From that point the mesh stack would
take over and establish a peer link (Mesh Peering Management).

These patches introduce support for Authenticated Mesh Peering Exchange
in userspace.  The userspace daemon implements the AMPE protocol and on
successfull completion create mesh peers and install encryption keys.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
include/linux/nl80211.h
include/net/cfg80211.h
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/mesh.c
net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
net/wireless/nl80211.c