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| author | Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> | 2016-09-14 12:48:32 +0530 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-09-15 16:46:20 +0200 |
| commit | e8a24cd4b87247beedb1addc7b683422092047e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 07a07b39d1a9a074ba4833dc9fac02ca2bda73ab /include | |
| parent | c7e9dbcf09bddd01568113103d62423d8894eabd (diff) | |
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mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism
Based on consecutive msdu failures, mac80211 triggers CQM packet-loss
mechanism. Drivers like ath10k that have its own connection monitoring
algorithm, offloaded to firmware for triggering station kickout. In case
of station kickout, driver will report low ack status by mac80211 API
(ieee80211_report_low_ack).
This flag will enable the driver to completely rely on firmware events
for station kickout and bypass mac80211 packet loss mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index d9c8ccd6b4e6..5296100f3889 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -2018,6 +2018,11 @@ struct ieee80211_txq { * @IEEE80211_HW_TX_FRAG_LIST: Hardware (or driver) supports sending frag_list * skbs, needed for zero-copy software A-MSDU. * + * @IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_LOW_ACK: The driver (or firmware) reports low ack event + * by ieee80211_report_low_ack() based on its own algorithm. For such + * drivers, mac80211 packet loss mechanism will not be triggered and driver + * is completely depending on firmware event for station kickout. + * * @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays */ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { @@ -2058,6 +2063,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_USES_RSS, IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMSDU, IEEE80211_HW_TX_FRAG_LIST, + IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_LOW_ACK, /* keep last, obviously */ NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS |
