linux/include
Johannes Berg 042ec45337 mac80211: let drivers inform it about per TID buffered frames
For uAPSD implementation, it is necessary to know on
which ACs frames are buffered. mac80211 obviously
knows about the frames it has buffered itself, but
with aggregation many drivers buffer frames. Thus,
mac80211 needs to be informed about this.

For now, since we don't have APSD in any form, this
will unconditionally set the TIM bit for the station
but later with uAPSD only some ACs might cause the
TIM bit to be set.

ath9k is the only driver using this API and I only
modify it in the most basic way, it won't be able
to implement uAPSD with this yet. But it can't do
that anyway since there's no way to selectively
release frames to the peer yet.

Since drivers will buffer frames per TID, let them
inform mac80211 on a per TID basis, mac80211 will
then sort out the AC mapping itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:10 -04:00
..
acpi atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'next/cross-platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc 2011-07-26 17:12:10 -07:00
crypto
drm atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
keys
linux nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stations 2011-09-30 15:57:08 -04:00
math-emu
media [media] tuner-core/v4l2-subdev: document that the type field has to be filled in 2011-07-07 15:04:23 -03:00
mtd
net mac80211: let drivers inform it about per TID buffered frames 2011-09-30 15:57:10 -04:00
pcmcia pcmcia: add PCMCIA_DEVICE_MANF_CARD_PROD_ID3 2011-08-08 16:04:11 -04:00
rdma atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
rxrpc atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2011-07-27 13:21:40 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 2011-07-27 09:25:15 -07:00
target target: Bump version to v4.1.0-rc1-ml 2011-07-22 09:37:49 +00:00
trace Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 2011-07-26 11:34:40 -07:00
video
xen xen/balloon: memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver 2011-07-25 20:57:08 -07:00
Kbuild