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mac80211: explicitly notify drivers of frame release

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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>
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Johannes Berg
2011-09-29 16:04:38 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 5bade101ec
commit 40b9640883
4 changed files with 78 additions and 10 deletions
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net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
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@@ -685,4 +685,19 @@ drv_release_buffered_frames(struct ieee80211_local *local,
more_data);
trace_drv_return_void(local);
}
static inline void
drv_allow_buffered_frames(struct ieee80211_local *local,
struct sta_info *sta, u16 tids, int num_frames,
enum ieee80211_frame_release_type reason,
bool more_data)
{
trace_drv_allow_buffered_frames(local, &sta->sta, tids, num_frames,
reason, more_data);
if (local->ops->allow_buffered_frames)
local->ops->allow_buffered_frames(&local->hw, &sta->sta,
tids, num_frames, reason,
more_data);
trace_drv_return_void(local);
}
#endif /* __MAC80211_DRIVER_OPS */