mac80211: add flag to indicate HW only Tx-agg setup support

When this flag is set, Tx A-MPDU sessions will not be started by
mac80211. This flag is required for devices that support Tx A-MPDU setup
in hardware.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Arik Nemtsov 2011-08-30 09:32:38 +03:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 24616152b1
commit edf6b784c0
4 changed files with 11 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -1096,6 +1096,10 @@ enum sta_notify_cmd {
* stations based on the PM bit of incoming frames.
* Use ieee80211_start_ps()/ieee8021_end_ps() to manually configure
* the PS mode of connected stations.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW: The device handles TX A-MPDU session
* setup strictly in HW. mac80211 should not attempt to do this in
* software.
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL = 1<<0,
@ -1121,6 +1125,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CQM_RSSI = 1<<20,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PER_STA_GTK = 1<<21,
IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS = 1<<22,
IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW = 1<<23,
};
/**

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@ -360,7 +360,8 @@ int ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u16 tid,
return -EINVAL;
if ((tid >= STA_TID_NUM) ||
!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION))
!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION) ||
(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW))
return -EINVAL;
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG

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@ -350,6 +350,8 @@ static ssize_t hwflags_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
sf += snprintf(buf + sf, mxln - sf, "SUPPORTS_PER_STA_GTK\n");
if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS)
sf += snprintf(buf + sf, mxln - sf, "AP_LINK_PS\n");
if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW)
sf += snprintf(buf + sf, mxln - sf, "TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW\n");
rv = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, strlen(buf));
kfree(buf);

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@ -1232,7 +1232,8 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
tx->sta = sta_info_get(sdata, hdr->addr1);
if (tx->sta && ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control) &&
(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION)) {
(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION) &&
!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW)) {
struct tid_ampdu_tx *tid_tx;
qc = ieee80211_get_qos_ctl(hdr);