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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-11-19 01:08:30 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-11-19 11:08:56 -0500 |
| commit | 7351c6bd482712e5e3ec9dffc547de0e0863efb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1847c0470af79727b58611a69fa82384bd904d60 /include/net | |
| parent | ad4bb6f8883a13bb0f65b194dae36c62a02ac779 (diff) | |
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mac80211: request TX status where needed
Right now all frames mac80211 hands to the driver
have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set to
request TX status. This isn't really necessary, only
the injected frames need TX status (the latter for
hostapd) so move setting this flag.
The rate control algorithms also need TX status, but
they don't require it.
Also, rt2x00 uses that bit for its own purposes and
seems to require it being set for all frames, but
that can be fixed in rt2x00.
This doesn't really change anything for any drivers
but in the future drivers using hw-rate control may
opt to not report TX status for frames that don't
have the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag set.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> [rt2x00 bits]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index f34f4ca..3754ea4 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf { * * These flags are used with the @flags member of &ieee80211_tx_info. * - * @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS: request TX status callback for this frame. + * @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS: require TX status callback for this frame. * @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ: The driver has to assign a sequence * number to this frame, taking care of not overwriting the fragment * number and increasing the sequence number only when the |
