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mac80211: support hw managing reorder logic

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Enable driver to manage the reordering logic itself.
This is needed for example for the iwlwifi driver that
will support hardware assisted reordering.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Sara Sharon
2015-12-08 19:09:05 +02:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent 50ea05efaf
commit 412a6d800c
4 changed files with 41 additions and 11 deletions
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include/net/mac80211.h
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@@ -1929,6 +1929,11 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
* by just its MAC address; this prevents, for example, the same station
* from connecting to two virtual AP interfaces at the same time.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_REORDERING_BUFFER: Hardware (or driver) manages the
* reordering buffer internally, guaranteeing mac80211 receives frames in
* order and does not need to manage its own reorder buffer or BA session
* timeout.
*
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@@ -1965,6 +1970,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU,
IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS,
IEEE80211_HW_NEEDS_UNIQUE_STA_ADDR,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_REORDERING_BUFFER,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS