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Tomas Winkler
5479d0e739 mac80211: fix warning: unused variable invoke_tx_handlers
This patch fixes warning: unused variable in invoke_tx_handlers
when compiling without MAC80211_DEBUG option

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-30 17:37:36 -04:00
Johannes Berg
03f93c3d4c mac80211: fix tx fragmentation
This patch fixes TX fragmentation caused by
tx handlers reordering and 'tx info to cb' patches

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 09:09:21 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
065e9605f9 mac80211: tx.c use new frame control helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 09:09:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg
97b045d62b mac80211: add single function calling tx handlers
This modifies mac80211 to only have a single function calling the
TX handlers rather than them being invoked in multiple places.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26 16:50:02 -04:00
David S. Miller
0344f1c66b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/tx.c
2008-06-19 16:00:04 -07:00
Johannes Berg
ef3a62d272 mac80211: detect driver tx bugs
When a driver rejects a frame in it's ->tx() callback, it must also
stop queues, otherwise mac80211 can go into a loop here. Detect this
situation and abort the loop after five retries, warning about the
driver bug.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-18 15:39:48 -07:00
David S. Miller
3a5be7d4b0 Revert "mac80211: Use skb_header_cloned() on TX path."
This reverts commit 608961a5ec.

The problem is that the mac80211 stack not only needs to be able to
muck with the link-level headers, it also might need to mangle all of
the packet data if doing sw wireless encryption.

This fixes kernel bugzilla #10903.  Thanks to Didier Raboud (for the
bugzilla report), Andrew Prince (for bisecting), Johannes Berg (for
bringing this bisection analysis to my attention), and Ilpo (for
trying to analyze this purely from the TCP side).

In 2.6.27 we can take another stab at this, by using something like
skb_cow_data() when the TX path of mac80211 ends up with a non-NULL
tx->key.  The ESP protocol code in the IPSEC stack can be used as a
model for implementation.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-18 01:19:51 -07:00
Ron Rindjunsky
8d5e0d58b3 mac80211: do not fragment while aggregation is in use
This patch denies the use of framentation while ampdu is used.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-14 12:18:10 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
2d892986e8 mac80211: removing shadowed sband
This patch removes doubly defined sband variable

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:29 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
b97e77e044 mac80211: fix unbalanced locking in ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
This patch fixes unbalanced locking in ieee80211_get_buffered_bc

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:29 -04:00
Johannes Berg
5854a32e6c mac80211: fix rate control initialisation
In commit 2e92e6f2c5 ("mac80211: use rate
index in TX control") I forgot to initialise a few new variables to -1 which
means that the rate control algorithm is never triggered and 0 is used as
the only rate index, effectively fixing the transmit bitrate at the lowest
supported.

This patch adds the missing initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Bisected-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:28 -04:00
Tomas Winkler
747cf5e924 mac80211: fix ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
fix bss not initialized in ieee80211_get_buffered_bc
and unbalanced locking

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg
23c0752a25 mac80211: clean up skb reallocation code
This cleans up the skb reallocation code to avoid problems with
skb->truesize, not resize an skb twice for a single output path
because we didn't expand it enough during the first copy and also
removes the code to further expand it during crypto operations
which will no longer be necessary.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-03 15:00:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
9e72ebd686 mac80211: remove channel use statistics
The useless channel use statistics are quite a lot of code, currently
use integer divisions in the packet fast path, are rather inaccurate
since they do not account for retries and finally nobody even cares.
Hence, remove them completely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e253008360 mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice
This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
eefce91a38 mac80211: dont allow fragmentation and requeuing on A-MPDU queues
There really is no reason for a driver to reject a frame on
an A-MPDU queue when it can stop that queue for any period
of time and is given frames one by one. Hence, disallow it
with a big warning and reduce mac80211-internal state.

Also add a warning when we try to fragment a frame destined
for an A-MPDU queue and drop it, the actual bug needs to be
fixed elsewhere but I'm not exactly sure how to yet.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:13 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e039fa4a41 mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.

A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:11 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e24549485f mac80211: reorder some transmit handlers
The next patch will require that transmit handlers that are after
fragmentation are aware of the fact that the control info is also
fragmented. To make that easier, this patch moves a number of
transmit handlers before fragmentation.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:10 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2e92e6f2c5 mac80211: use rate index in TX control
This patch modifies struct ieee80211_tx_control to give band
info and the rate index (instead of rate pointers) to drivers.
This mostly serves to reduce the TX control structure size to
make it fit into skb->cb so that the fragmentation code can
put it there and we can think about passing it to drivers that
way in the future.

The rt2x00 driver update was done by Ivo, thanks.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:09 -04:00
David S. Miller
f42a44494b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-05-15 00:52:37 -07:00
Ivo van Doorn
b0a6717994 mac80211: Set IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS for all TX frames
All interfaces should set the IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS flag for all TX frames
which will force the master interface to set the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS
flag. This in turn will allow drivers to check for that flag before reporting
the TX status to mac80211.

This is very usefull when frames (like beacons, RTS and CTS-to-self) should not
be reported back to mac80211. Later we could add more extensive checks to
exclude more frames from being reported, or let mac80211 decide if it wants
the frame for status reporting or not.

v2: Monitor interfaces should also set IEEE80211_TXPD_REQ_TX_STATUS

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:49 -04:00
Johannes Berg
07346f81e8 mac80211: proper STA info locking
As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info
and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the
structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the
especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently
be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different
CPUs at the same time.

Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive
parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills
the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one
for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this
is safe.

It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta
flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this
is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be
very simple using the new static inline functions this patch
introduces for accessing sta->flags.

Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't
be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the
same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which
is in a bh context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:34 -04:00
Johannes Berg
3434fbd398 mac80211: require four hardware queues for QoS/HT
This patch makes mac80211 only announce QoS/HT support when
the underlying hardware has four (or more) queues.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ron Rindjunksi <ron.rindjunksi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14 16:29:33 -04:00
David S. Miller
608961a5ec mac80211: Use skb_header_cloned() on TX path.
When skb_header_cloned() returns false you can change the
headers however you like.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-12 21:59:32 -07:00
Ivo van Doorn
df44205455 mac80211: Don't encrypt beacons
mac80211 should set the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag in tx_control
structure to inform drivers not to encrypt the beacon. Drivers that only check
for that flag before accessing the hw_key field, will otherwise cause a NULL
pointer dereference since that field is not configured for beacons.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-12 21:22:18 -04:00
Johannes Berg
2c8dccc774 mac80211: rename files
This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid
of the useless ieee80211_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 16:44:45 -04:00
Chr
fff7710937 mac80211: add station aid into ieee80211_tx_control
This patch is necessary for the upcoming Accesspoint patch for p54.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 15:05:57 -04:00
Johannes Berg
d0709a6518 mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access
This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect
against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the
copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it
is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is
now somewhat understandable.

This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction
by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under
RTNL and frees the key.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:46 -05:00
Johannes Berg
5cf121c3cd mac80211: split ieee80211_txrx_data
Split it into ieee80211_tx_data and ieee80211_rx_data to clarify
usage/flag usage and remove the stupid union thing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:46 -05:00
Johannes Berg
902acc7896 mac80211: clean up mesh code
Various cleanups, reducing the #ifdef mess and other things.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:42 -05:00
Luis Carlos Cobo
33b64eb2b1 mac80211: support for mesh interfaces in mac80211 data path
This changes the TX/RX paths in mac80211 to support mesh interfaces.
This code will be cleaned up later again before being enabled.

Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06 15:30:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg
d46e144b65 mac80211: rework TX filtered frame code
This reworks the code for TX filtered frames, splitting it out to
a new function to handle those cases, making the clear instruction
a flag and renaming a few things to be easier to understand and
less Atheros hardware specific. Finally, it also makes the comments
explain more.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:41:32 -05:00
Johannes Berg
004c872e78 mac80211: consolidate TIM handling code
This consolidates all TIM handling code to avoid re-introducing
errors with the bitmap/set_tim order and to reduce code. While
reading the code I noticed a possible problem so I also added
a comment about that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
836341a704 mac80211: remove sta TIM flag, fix expiry TIM handling
The TIM flag that is kept in each station's info is completely
useless, there's no code (aside from the debugfs display code)
checking it, hence it can be removed. While doing that, I noticed
that the TIM handling is broken when buffered frames expire, so
fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
d2259243a1 mac80211: invoke set_tim() callback after setting own TIM info
Drivers should be allowed to simply get a complete new beacon when
set_tim() is invoked (and set_tim() is required for drivers that
just want a beacon template!), so we need to update our own TIM
bitmap before calling set_tim() so that getting the beacon will
now get an already updated beacon.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4a9a66e9a8 mac80211: convert sta_info.pspoll to a flag
This doesn't really need to be a full int variable since it's
just a flag to indicate a PS-poll is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:13 -05:00
Johannes Berg
589052904a mac80211: remove "dynamic" RX/TX handlers
It doesn't really make sense to have extra pointers to the RX/TX
handler arrays instead of just using the arrays directly, that
also allows us to make them static.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:03 -05:00
Johannes Berg
9ae54c8463 mac80211: split ieee80211_txrx_result
The _DROP result will need to be split in the RX path but not
in the TX path, so for preparation split up the type into two
types, one for RX and one for TX. Also make sure (via sparse)
that they cannot be confused.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:01 -05:00
Johannes Berg
238814fd9a mac80211: remove port control enable switch, clean up sta flags
This patch removes the 802.1X port acess control enable flag
since it is not required. Instead, set the authorized flag for
each station that we normally communicate with (WDS peers, IBSS
peers and APs we're associated to) and require hostapd to set
the authorized flag for all stations when port control is not
enabled.

Also, since I was working in that area, this documents station
flags and removes the unused "permanent" one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:33 -05:00
Johannes Berg
8318d78a44 cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.

Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.

Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.

I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:32 -05:00
Ron Rindjunsky
9e72349237 mac80211: A-MPDU Tx adding qdisc support
This patch allows qdisc support in A-MPDU Tx. a method to
handle QoS <-> TID switches is present in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:17 -05:00
Johannes Berg
7d185b8bb1 mac80211: allow sending multicast frames through virtual ports
When reworking the port access control code, I forgot multicast frames
and those are now always rejected because the destination station is
not known. This changes the code to allow through multicast frames and
also avoid the sta hash lookup (which is bound to fail) for them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:09 -05:00
Ivo van Doorn
0f7054e32f mac80211: Initialize vif pointer
Before calling update_beacon() mac80211 must
initialize the control.vif pointer so it can
be used by the driver to determine which
interface is trying to send the beacon.

v2: ieee80211_beacon_get() should also initialize the
vif pointer since it can be called by mac80211 internally
before calling config_interface().

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:10:08 -08:00
Johannes Berg
471b3efdfc mac80211: add unified BSS configuration
This patch (based on Ron Rindjunsky's) creates a framework for
a unified way to pass BSS configuration to drivers that require
the information, e.g. for implementing power save mode.

This patch introduces new ieee80211_bss_conf structure that is
passed to the driver via the new bss_info_changed() callback
when the BSS configuration changes.

This new BSS configuration infrastructure adds the following
new features:
 * drivers are notified of their association AID
 * drivers are notified of association status

and replaces the erp_ie_changed() callback. The patch also does
the relevant driver updates for the latter change.

Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:43 -08:00
Johannes Berg
5dfdaf58d6 mac80211: add beacon configuration via cfg80211
This patch implements the cfg80211 hooks for configuring beaconing
on an access point interface in mac80211. While doing so, it fixes
a number of races that could badly crash the machine when the
beacon is changed while being requested by the driver.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:38 -08:00
Johannes Berg
51fb61e76d mac80211: move interface type to vif structure
Drivers that support mixed AP/STA operation may well need to
know the type of a virtual interface when iterating over them.
The easiest way to support that is to move the interface type
variable into the vif structure.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:37 -08:00
Johannes Berg
32bfd35d4b mac80211: dont use interface indices in drivers
This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.

This has two advantages:
 * removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
   for working with network namespaces and performance
 * allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
   having to allocate own lists/hash tables

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:36 -08:00
Johannes Berg
6d65f5db2f mac80211: remove misleading 'res' variable
When this function returns != CONTINUE, it needs to put the
station struct it has acquired. Hence, having this unused
variable is not just superfluous but also misleading.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:55 -08:00
Johannes Berg
176e4f8442 mac80211: move tx crypto decision
This patch moves the decision making about whether a frame is encrypted
with a certain algorithm up into the TX handlers rather than having it
in the crypto algorithm implementation.

This fixes a problem with the radiotap injection code where injecting
a non-data packet and requesting encryption could end up asking the
driver to encrypt a packet without giving it a key.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:53 -08:00
Johannes Berg
7d54d0ddd6 mac80211: allow easier multicast/broadcast buffering in hardware
There are various decisions influencing the decision whether to buffer
a frame for after the next DTIM beacon. The "do we have stations in PS
mode" condition cannot be tested by the driver so mac80211 has to do
that. To ease driver writing for hardware that can buffer frames until
after the next DTIM beacon, introduce a new txctl flag telling the
driver to buffer a specific frame.

While at it, restructure and comment the code for multicast buffering
and remove spurious "inline" directives.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:47 -08:00