mac80211: notify the driver upon BAR Rx
When we receive a BAR, this typically means that our peer
doesn't hear our Block-Acks or that we can't hear its
frames. Either way, it is a good indication that the link
is in a bad condition. This is why it can serve as a probe
to the driver.
Use the event_callback callback for this.
Since more events with the same data will be added in the
feature, the structure that describes the data attached to
the event is called in a generic name: ieee80211_ba_event.
This also means that from now on, the event_callback can't
sleep.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 4feb74d..0c3983b 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -337,10 +337,12 @@
* enum ieee80211_event_type - event to be notified to the low level driver
* @RSSI_EVENT: AP's rssi crossed the a threshold set by the driver.
* @MLME_EVENT: event related to MLME
+ * @BAR_RX_EVENT: a BAR was received
*/
enum ieee80211_event_type {
RSSI_EVENT,
MLME_EVENT,
+ BAR_RX_EVENT,
};
/**
@@ -400,17 +402,31 @@
};
/**
+ * struct ieee80211_ba_event - data attached for BlockAck related events
+ * @sta: pointer to the &ieee80211_sta to which this event relates
+ * @tid: the tid
+ * @ssn: the starting sequence number
+ */
+struct ieee80211_ba_event {
+ struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
+ u16 tid;
+ u16 ssn;
+};
+
+/**
* struct ieee80211_event - event to be sent to the driver
* @type: The event itself. See &enum ieee80211_event_type.
* @rssi: relevant if &type is %RSSI_EVENT
* @mlme: relevant if &type is %AUTH_EVENT
- * @u: union holding the above two fields
+ * @ba: relevant if &type is %BAR_RX_EVENT
+ * @u:union holding the fields above
*/
struct ieee80211_event {
enum ieee80211_event_type type;
union {
struct ieee80211_rssi_event rssi;
struct ieee80211_mlme_event mlme;
+ struct ieee80211_ba_event ba;
} u;
};
@@ -3001,7 +3017,7 @@
* The callback can sleep.
* @event_callback: Notify driver about any event in mac80211. See
* &enum ieee80211_event_type for the different types.
- * The callback can sleep.
+ * The callback must be atomic.
*
* @release_buffered_frames: Release buffered frames according to the given
* parameters. In the case where the driver buffers some frames for