From 4c6d4f5c33fbe19b134c1af43af166fee79eb986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:05:41 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Reinette Chatre Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Gabor Juhos Acked-by: Felix Fietkau Cc: Derek Smithies Cc: Chittajit Mitra Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- include/net/mac80211.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') 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) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2