Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:54964 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751267Ab1DRLWg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:22:36 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so3803021wya.19 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:22:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Arik Nemtsov To: Cc: Luciano Coelho , Johannes Berg , Arik Nemtsov Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: allow low level drivers to report packet loss Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:22:28 +0300 Message-Id: <1303125749-31967-1-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Add API that allows low level drivers to notify mac80211 about TX packet loss. This is useful when there are FW triggers to notify the low level driver about these events. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov --- include/net/mac80211.h | 11 +++++++++++ net/mac80211/status.c | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index cefe1b3..efbdda9 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -2265,6 +2265,17 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb); /** + * ieee80211_report_low_ack - report non-responding station + * + * When operating in AP-mode, call this function to report a non-responding + * connected STA. + * + * @sta: the non-responding connected sta + * @num_packets: number of packets sent to @sta without a response + */ +void ieee80211_report_low_ack(struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u32 num_packets); + +/** * ieee80211_beacon_get_tim - beacon generation function * @hw: pointer obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw(). * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback. diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c index 3ed3c83..1658efa 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/status.c +++ b/net/mac80211/status.c @@ -446,3 +446,11 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb) dev_kfree_skb(skb); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_tx_status); + +void ieee80211_report_low_ack(struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, u32 num_packets) +{ + struct sta_info *sta = container_of(pubsta, struct sta_info, sta); + cfg80211_cqm_pktloss_notify(sta->sdata->dev, sta->sta.addr, + num_packets, GFP_ATOMIC); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_report_low_ack); -- 1.7.1