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| author | Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> | 2009-07-16 10:05:41 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-07-24 15:05:16 -0400 |
| commit | 4c6d4f5c33fbe19b134c1af43af166fee79eb986 (patch) | |
| tree | 789bd7f9c049ea9c57ad8f4826df6bcad3774ade /include/net | |
| parent | 943ab70f6aebfdc0005ef7e58ae982e9ec22224b (diff) | |
mac80211: add helper for management / no-ack frame rate decision
All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211
for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.
Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
gate_rate() mac80211 callback.
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index d98fac54577..a861259c305 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -2094,6 +2094,29 @@ static inline int rate_supported(struct ieee80211_sta *sta, return (sta == NULL || sta->supp_rates[band] & BIT(index)); } +/** + * rate_control_send_low - helper for drivers for management/no-ack frames + * + * Rate control algorithms that agree to use the lowest rate to + * send management frames and NO_ACK data with the respective hw + * retries should use this in the beginning of their mac80211 get_rate + * callback. If true is returned the rate control can simply return. + * If false is returned we guarantee that sta and sta and priv_sta is + * not null. + * + * Rate control algorithms wishing to do more intelligent selection of + * rate for multicast/broadcast frames may choose to not use this. + * + * @sta: &struct ieee80211_sta pointer to the target destination. Note + * that this may be null. + * @priv_sta: private rate control structure. This may be null. + * @txrc: rate control information we sholud populate for mac80211. + */ +bool rate_control_send_low(struct ieee80211_sta *sta, + void *priv_sta, + struct ieee80211_tx_rate_control *txrc); + + static inline s8 rate_lowest_index(struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband, struct ieee80211_sta *sta) |