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| author |   Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2011-09-29 16:04:38 +0200 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-09-30 15:57:21 -0400 |
| commit | 40b96408831f038b1a6b45e8b22cd050f82a3896 (patch) | |
| tree | c8ea29b9d01ba28d484cf2d4c4a0cd576d598b79 /include/net | |
| parent | mac80211: add missing station flags to debugfs (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-40b96408831f038b1a6b45e8b22cd050f82a3896.tar.xz linux-dev-40b96408831f038b1a6b45e8b22cd050f82a3896.zip | |
mac80211: explicitly notify drivers of frame release
iwlwifi needs to know the number of frames that are
going to be sent to a station while it is asleep so
it can properly handle the uCode blocking of that
station.
Before uAPSD, we got by by telling the device that
a single frame was going to be released whenever we
encountered IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE. With
uAPSD, however, that is no longer possible since
there could be more than a single frame.
To support this model, add a new callback to notify
drivers when frames are going to be released.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index ee6449eff7dc..778572d38bd3 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -1973,6 +1973,18 @@ enum ieee80211_frame_release_type { * service period ends, the driver must set %IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP * on the last frame in the SP. * This callback must be atomic. + * @allow_buffered_frames: Prepare device to allow the given number of frames + * to go out to the given station. The frames will be sent by mac80211 + * via the usual TX path after this call. The TX information for frames + * released will also have the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE flag set + * and the last one will also have %IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP set. In case + * frames from multiple TIDs are released and the driver might reorder + * them between the TIDs, it must set the %IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP flag + * on the last frame and clear it on all others and also handle the EOSP + * bit in the QoS header correctly. + * The @tids parameter is a bitmap and tells the driver which TIDs the + * frames will be on; it will at most have two bits set. + * This callback must be atomic. */ struct ieee80211_ops { void (*tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb); @@ -2088,6 +2100,11 @@ struct ieee80211_ops { void (*rssi_callback)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum ieee80211_rssi_event rssi_event); + void (*allow_buffered_frames)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, + struct ieee80211_sta *sta, + u16 tids, int num_frames, + enum ieee80211_frame_release_type reason, + bool more_data); void (*release_buffered_frames)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u16 tids, int num_frames, |