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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-06-07 21:58:37 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-06-10 13:28:37 -0400
commit8f77f3849cc3ae2d6df9301785a3d316ea7d7ee1 (patch)
tree02143d1e81c85f64900546e3e9c2b820f72745d1 /include/net
parentfc240e3fc5791c572402b0857948da7b1e68d77f (diff)
mac80211: do not pass PS frames out of mac80211 again
In order to handle powersave frames properly we had needed to pass these out to the device queues again, and introduce the skb->requeue bit. This, however, also has unnecessary overhead by needing to 'clean up' already tried frames, and this clean-up code is also buggy when software encryption is used. Instead of sending the frames via the master netdev queue again, simply put them into the pending queue. This also fixes a problem where frames for that particular station could be reordered when some were still on the software queues and older ones are re-injected into the software queue after them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 17d61d19d91..c0610447697 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
* @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING: completely internal to mac80211,
* used to indicate that a pending frame requires TX processing before
* it can be sent out.
+ * @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRIED: completely internal to mac80211,
+ * used to indicate that a frame was already retried due to PS
*/
enum mac80211_tx_control_flags {
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS = BIT(0),
@@ -256,6 +258,7 @@ enum mac80211_tx_control_flags {
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE = BIT(12),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RCALGO = BIT(13),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING = BIT(14),
+ IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRIED = BIT(15),
};
/**