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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-08-17 16:16:53 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-08-20 11:35:58 -0400
commit3ac64beecd27400d12cc7afb4108eef26c499f6a (patch)
treeda0220085f68e30fe61ba9b8833dc6311d6dc25e /include/net/mac80211.h
parentea416a793d2b611f22b42ba094fd2e5bd30fff43 (diff)
mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleep
Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that need the multicast address list implement. This new callback must be atomic, but most drivers either don't care or just calculate a hash which can be done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware non-atomically. A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170, mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00, wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this new capability. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h21
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 76d43e12cc2..bc865206e5f 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1219,10 +1219,13 @@ ieee80211_get_alt_retry_rate(const struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
* the driver's configure_filter() function which frames should be
* passed to mac80211 and which should be filtered out.
*
- * The configure_filter() callback is invoked with the parameters
- * @mc_count and @mc_list for the combined multicast address list
- * of all virtual interfaces, @changed_flags telling which flags
- * were changed and @total_flags with the new flag states.
+ * Before configure_filter() is invoked, the prepare_multicast()
+ * callback is invoked with the parameters @mc_count and @mc_list
+ * for the combined multicast address list of all virtual interfaces.
+ * It's use is optional, and it returns a u64 that is passed to
+ * configure_filter(). Additionally, configure_filter() has the
+ * arguments @changed_flags telling which flags were changed and
+ * @total_flags with the new flag states.
*
* If your device has no multicast address filters your driver will
* need to check both the %FIF_ALLMULTI flag and the @mc_count
@@ -1375,9 +1378,13 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action {
* for association indication. The @changed parameter indicates which
* of the bss parameters has changed when a call is made.
*
+ * @prepare_multicast: Prepare for multicast filter configuration.
+ * This callback is optional, and its return value is passed
+ * to configure_filter(). This callback must be atomic.
+ *
* @configure_filter: Configure the device's RX filter.
* See the section "Frame filtering" for more information.
- * This callback must be implemented and atomic.
+ * This callback must be implemented.
*
* @set_tim: Set TIM bit. mac80211 calls this function when a TIM bit
* must be set or cleared for a given STA. Must be atomic.
@@ -1479,10 +1486,12 @@ struct ieee80211_ops {
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
struct ieee80211_bss_conf *info,
u32 changed);
+ u64 (*prepare_multicast)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ int mc_count, struct dev_addr_list *mc_list);
void (*configure_filter)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
unsigned int changed_flags,
unsigned int *total_flags,
- int mc_count, struct dev_addr_list *mc_list);
+ u64 multicast);
int (*set_tim)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
bool set);
int (*set_key)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd,