This new endpoint type has been recently added to the kernel in v6.18
[1]. It will be used to create new subflows from the associated address
to additional addresses announced by the other peer. This will be done
if allowed by the MPTCP limits, and if the associated address is not
already being used by another subflow from the same MPTCP connection.
Note that the fullmesh flag takes precedence over the laminar one.
Without any of these two flags, the path-manager will create new
subflows to additional addresses announced by the other peer by
selecting the source address from the routing tables, which is harder to
configure if the announced address is not known in advance.
The support of the new flag is easy: simply by declaring a new flag for
NM, and adding it in the related helpers and existing checks looking at
the different MPTCP endpoint. The documentation now references the new
endpoint type.
Note that only the new 'define' has been added in the Linux header file:
this file has changed a bit since the last sync, now split in two files.
Only this new line is needed, so the minimum has been modified here.
Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/539f6b9de39e [1]
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Remove all the code that was added for the CSME coexistence.
The Intel WiFi team can't commit on when, if at all, this feature will
be completely integrated and tested in the NetworkManager.
The preferred solution for now is the solution that involves the kernel
only.
Remove the code that was merged so far.
We already have src/linux-headers, where we have complete copies of linux
user space headers. Of course that exists, because we want to use certain
features and don't depend on the installed kernel headers. Which works
well, because kernel user space API is stable, and we anyway want to
support compiling against a newer kernel and run against an older (e.g.
in a container). So having our copy of newer kernel headers is merely
as if we compiled against as newer kernel.
Add "src/nm-compat-headers" which has a similar purpose, but a different
approach. Instead of replacing the included header entirely, include
the system header and patch it with #define.
Use this for "linux/if_addr.h". Of course, the approach here is that we
no longer include <linux/if_addr.h> directly, but instead include
"nm-compat-headers/linux/if_addr.h".