linux/net
Johannes Berg cd8ffc800c mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop
Instead of stopping the entire AC queue when enabling aggregation
(which was only done for hardware with aggregation queues) buffer
the packets for each station, and release them to the pending skb
queue once aggregation is turned on successfully.

We get a little more code, but it becomes conceptually simpler and
we can remove the entire virtual queue mechanism from mac80211 in
a follow-up patch.

This changes how mac80211 behaves towards drivers that support
aggregation but have no hardware queues -- those drivers will now
not be handed packets while the aggregation session is being
established, but only after it has been fully established.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-27 20:13:22 -04:00
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9p 9p: fix sparse warning: cast adds address space 2009-02-26 23:13:32 -08:00
802 snap: use const for descriptor 2009-03-21 19:06:50 -07:00
8021q gro: Fix vlan/netpoll check again 2009-03-17 13:10:52 -07:00
appletalk appletalk: this warning can go I think 2009-03-27 00:27:18 -07:00
atm atm: convert clip driver to net_device_ops 2009-03-21 19:19:12 -07:00
ax25 ax25: zero length frame filtering in AX25 2009-03-21 13:33:55 -07:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
bridge Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-03-26 01:22:01 -07:00
can can: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:35 -08:00
core GRO: Disable GRO on legacy netif_rx path 2009-03-26 22:24:28 -07:00
dcb DCB: fix kfree(skb) 2009-01-04 17:29:21 -08:00
dccp dccp: Do not let initial option overhead shrink the MPS 2009-03-02 03:07:23 -08:00
decnet net/*: use linux/kernel.h swap() 2009-03-21 13:36:17 -07:00
dsa dsa: add switch chip cascading support 2009-03-21 19:06:54 -07:00
econet net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly 2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
ethernet eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() function 2008-11-23 23:24:32 -08:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-03-26 22:45:23 -07:00
ipv6 ipv6: Plug sk_buff leak in ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c) 2009-03-27 00:17:45 -07:00
ipx ipx: use constant for strings and desciptor 2009-03-21 19:06:51 -07:00
irda irlan: convert to net_device_ops 2009-03-21 19:19:16 -07:00
iucv iucv: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:37 -08:00
key af_key: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:32 -08:00
lapb
llc net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly 2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop 2009-03-27 20:13:22 -04:00
netfilter Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-03-26 22:45:23 -07:00
netlabel netlabel: Update kernel configuration API 2008-12-31 12:54:11 -05:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
netrom af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size 2009-03-27 00:28:21 -07:00
packet Network Drop Monitor: Adding kfree_skb_clean for non-drops and modifying end-of-line points for skbs 2009-03-13 12:09:28 -07:00
phonet net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly 2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
rds rds: fix iband RDMA dependencies 2009-03-03 21:39:40 -08:00
rfkill net/rfkill/rfkill.c: fix unused rfkill_led_trigger() warning 2009-01-04 17:11:24 -08:00
rose af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size 2009-03-27 00:28:21 -07:00
rxrpc RxRPC: Fix a potential NULL dereference 2009-02-06 21:50:52 -08:00
sched net/*: use linux/kernel.h swap() 2009-03-21 13:36:17 -07:00
sctp sctp: Clean up TEST_FRAME hacks. 2009-03-21 13:41:09 -07:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
tipc tipc: fix non-const printf format arguments 2009-03-18 19:11:29 -07:00
unix unix: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:34 -08:00
wanrouter wanrouter: fix sparse warnings: context imbalance 2009-02-26 23:13:36 -08:00
wimax Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-14 23:12:00 -08:00
wireless cfg80211: fix locking in nl80211_set_wiphy 2009-03-27 20:13:20 -04:00
x25 af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size 2009-03-27 00:28:21 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: spin_lock() should be spin_unlock() in xfrm_state.c 2009-03-27 00:23:04 -07:00
compat.c net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPING 2009-02-15 22:43:35 -08:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
Makefile RDS: Kconfig and Makefile 2009-02-26 23:43:35 -08:00
nonet.c
socket.c Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6 2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: sysctl_net - use net_eq to compare nets 2009-03-16 16:23:30 +01:00
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