mac80211: allow releasing driver-buffered frames

If there are frames for a station buffered in
the driver, mac80211 announces those in the TIM
IE but there's no way to release them. Add new
API to release such frames and use it when the
station polls for a frame.

Since the API will soon also be used for uAPSD
it is easily extensible.

Note that before this change drivers announcing
driver-buffered frames in the TIM bit actually
will respond to a PS-Poll with a potentially
lower priority frame (if there are any frames
buffered in mac80211), after this patch a driver
that hasn't been changed will no longer respond
at all. This only affects ath9k, which will need
to be fixed to implement the new API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
index 4f845c0..8fa0d2e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
@@ -670,4 +670,19 @@ static inline void drv_rssi_callback(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 		local->ops->rssi_callback(&local->hw, event);
 	trace_drv_return_void(local);
 }
+
+static inline void
+drv_release_buffered_frames(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+			    struct sta_info *sta, u16 tids, int num_frames,
+			    enum ieee80211_frame_release_type reason,
+			    bool more_data)
+{
+	trace_drv_release_buffered_frames(local, &sta->sta, tids, num_frames,
+					  reason, more_data);
+	if (local->ops->release_buffered_frames)
+		local->ops->release_buffered_frames(&local->hw, &sta->sta, tids,
+						    num_frames, reason,
+						    more_data);
+	trace_drv_return_void(local);
+}
 #endif /* __MAC80211_DRIVER_OPS */