mac80211: Early detection of broken mesh paths when using minstrel.

This change triggers a path discovery as soon as the link quality degrades
below a certain threshold.  This results in a faster path recovery time than
by simply relying on the periodic path refresh mechanism to detect broken
links.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona 2009-08-10 12:15:50 -07:00 • committed by John W. Linville
commit 5815814bfa