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authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>2010-06-14 22:08:30 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-06-15 16:00:49 -0400
commit46678b197a4a61f9c3701fb346b93acbf2ea9c61 (patch)
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parentmac80211: Use a separate CCMP PN receive counter for management frames (diff)
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rt2x00: clarify meaning of txdone flags
Update the documentation of the available txdone flags to better express how they should be used. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
index f79170849add..bd54f55a8cb9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
@@ -213,9 +213,16 @@ struct rxdone_entry_desc {
/**
* enum txdone_entry_desc_flags: Flags for &struct txdone_entry_desc
*
+ * Every txdone report has to contain the basic result of the
+ * transmission, either &TXDONE_UNKNOWN, &TXDONE_SUCCESS or
+ * &TXDONE_FAILURE. The flag &TXDONE_FALLBACK can be used in
+ * conjunction with all of these flags but should only be set
+ * if retires > 0. The flag &TXDONE_EXCESSIVE_RETRY can only be used
+ * in conjunction with &TXDONE_FAILURE.
+ *
* @TXDONE_UNKNOWN: Hardware could not determine success of transmission.
* @TXDONE_SUCCESS: Frame was successfully send
- * @TXDONE_FALLBACK: Frame was successfully send using a fallback rate.
+ * @TXDONE_FALLBACK: Hardware used fallback rates for retries
* @TXDONE_FAILURE: Frame was not successfully send
* @TXDONE_EXCESSIVE_RETRY: In addition to &TXDONE_FAILURE, the
* frame transmission failed due to excessive retries.