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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2008-05-17 00:57:13 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-05-21 21:48:13 -0400 |
| commit | eefce91a384a64c7bbf913eb08c4adfb911c3639 (patch) | |
| tree | ac091cd36f7739d9934a7ee01950a9da3e7cfc8b /include/net | |
| parent | e93048825face354ecb0cb3ac00190c764a44f45 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 54960b83db7..4df39eb9115 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -986,8 +986,10 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action { * @tx: Handler that 802.11 module calls for each transmitted frame. * skb contains the buffer starting from the IEEE 802.11 header. * The low-level driver should send the frame out based on - * configuration in the TX control data. Must be implemented and - * atomic. + * configuration in the TX control data. This handler should, + * preferably, never fail and stop queues appropriately, more + * importantly, however, it must never fail for A-MPDU-queues. + * Must be implemented and atomic. * * @start: Called before the first netdevice attached to the hardware * is enabled. This should turn on the hardware and must turn on |