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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 21:57:21 +0200 |
| commit | 40b96408831f038b1a6b45e8b22cd050f82a3896 (patch) | |
| tree | c8ea29b9d01ba28d484cf2d4c4a0cd576d598b79 /net/mac80211/driver-ops.h | |
| parent | mac80211: add missing station flags to debugfs (diff) | |
| download | linux-40b96408831f038b1a6b45e8b22cd050f82a3896.tar.xz linux-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 'net/mac80211/driver-ops.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/driver-ops.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h index 8fa0d2edf54c..68721d379fe1 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h +++ b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h @@ -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 */ |