mac80211: add an option for drivers to check if packets can be aggregated

Some hardwares have limitations on the packets' type in AMSDU.
Add an optional driver callback to determine if two skbs can
be used in the same AMSDU or not.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Sara Sharon
2018-09-05 08:06:11 +03:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent edba6bdad6
commit 9739fe29a2
3 changed files with 20 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -3594,6 +3594,10 @@ enum ieee80211_reconfig_type {
* @del_nan_func: Remove a NAN function. The driver must call
* ieee80211_nan_func_terminated() with
* NL80211_NAN_FUNC_TERM_REASON_USER_REQUEST reason code upon removal.
* @can_aggregate_in_amsdu: Called in order to determine if HW supports
* aggregating two specific frames in the same A-MSDU. The relation
* between the skbs should be symmetric and transitive. Note that while
* skb is always a real frame, head may or may not be an A-MSDU.
*/
struct ieee80211_ops {
void (*tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
@@ -3876,6 +3880,9 @@ struct ieee80211_ops {
void (*del_nan_func)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
u8 instance_id);
bool (*can_aggregate_in_amsdu)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct sk_buff *head,
struct sk_buff *skb);
};
/**