kernel-ark/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.h
Johannes Berg 6ab10ff873 iwlwifi: handle unicast PS buffering
Using the new mac80211 functionality, this makes
iwlwifi handle unicast PS buffering correctly.
The device works like this:

 * when a station goes to sleep, the microcode notices
   this and marks the station as asleep
 * when the station is marked asleep, the microcode
   refuses to transmit to the station and rejects all
   frames queued to it with the failure status code
   TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS (a previous patch handled
   this correctly)
 * when we need to send frames to the station _although_
   it is asleep, we need to tell the ucode how many,
   and this is asynchronous with sending so we cannot
   just send the frames, we need to wait for all other
   frames to be flushed, and then update the counter
   before sending out the poll response frames. This
   is handled partially in the driver and partially in
   mac80211.

In order to do all this correctly, we need to
 * keep track of how many frames are pending for each
   associated client station (avoid doing it for other
   stations to avoid the atomic ops)
 * tell mac80211 that we driver-block the PS status
   while there are still frames pending on the queues,
   and once they are all rejected (due to the dest sta
   being in PS) unblock mac80211

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:08 -05:00

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#ifndef __iwl_sta_h__
#define __iwl_sta_h__
#define HW_KEY_DYNAMIC 0
#define HW_KEY_DEFAULT 1
/**
* iwl_find_station - Find station id for a given BSSID
* @bssid: MAC address of station ID to find
*/
u8 iwl_find_station(struct iwl_priv *priv, const u8 *bssid);
int iwl_send_static_wepkey_cmd(struct iwl_priv *priv, u8 send_if_empty);
int iwl_remove_default_wep_key(struct iwl_priv *priv,
struct ieee80211_key_conf *key);
int iwl_set_default_wep_key(struct iwl_priv *priv,
struct ieee80211_key_conf *key);
int iwl_set_dynamic_key(struct iwl_priv *priv,
struct ieee80211_key_conf *key, u8 sta_id);
int iwl_remove_dynamic_key(struct iwl_priv *priv,
struct ieee80211_key_conf *key, u8 sta_id);
void iwl_update_tkip_key(struct iwl_priv *priv,
struct ieee80211_key_conf *keyconf,
const u8 *addr, u32 iv32, u16 *phase1key);
int iwl_rxon_add_station(struct iwl_priv *priv, const u8 *addr, bool is_ap);
void iwl_add_bcast_station(struct iwl_priv *priv);
int iwl_remove_station(struct iwl_priv *priv, const u8 *addr, bool is_ap);
void iwl_clear_stations_table(struct iwl_priv *priv);
int iwl_get_free_ucode_key_index(struct iwl_priv *priv);
int iwl_get_sta_id(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr);
int iwl_get_ra_sta_id(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr);
int iwl_send_add_sta(struct iwl_priv *priv,
struct iwl_addsta_cmd *sta, u8 flags);
u8 iwl_add_station(struct iwl_priv *priv, const u8 *addr, bool is_ap, u8 flags,
struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap *ht_info);
void iwl_sta_tx_modify_enable_tid(struct iwl_priv *priv, int sta_id, int tid);
int iwl_sta_rx_agg_start(struct iwl_priv *priv,
const u8 *addr, int tid, u16 ssn);
int iwl_sta_rx_agg_stop(struct iwl_priv *priv, const u8 *addr, int tid);
void iwl_sta_modify_ps_wake(struct iwl_priv *priv, int sta_id);
void iwl_sta_modify_sleep_tx_count(struct iwl_priv *priv, int sta_id, int cnt);
#endif /* __iwl_sta_h__ */