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| author | Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> | 2009-11-24 10:53:25 +0300 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-11-28 23:04:49 +0300 |
| commit | e7824a50662f7f79b1a739f705b4d906c31cf221 (patch) | |
| tree | 20f92622698f9f07524db55691e0322b298031db /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h | |
| parent | 6b65b6ad016f048547127946d1afe4ba41c74296 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e7824a50662f7f79b1a739f705b4d906c31cf221.tar.xz | |
ath9k: fix processing of TX PS null data frames
When mac80211 was telling us to go into Powersave we listened
and immediately turned RX off. This meant hardware would not
see the ACKs from the AP we're associated with and hardware
we'd end up retransmiting the null data frame in a loop
helplessly.
Fix this by keeping track of the transmitted nullfunc frames
and only when we are sure the AP has sent back an ACK do we
go ahead and shut RX off.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <Vivek.Natarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h index 29dfe14751a7..6cc04951a051 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ #define ATH9K_TXERR_FIFO 0x04 #define ATH9K_TXERR_XTXOP 0x08 #define ATH9K_TXERR_TIMER_EXPIRED 0x10 +#define ATH9K_TX_ACKED 0x20 #define ATH9K_TX_BA 0x01 #define ATH9K_TX_PWRMGMT 0x02 @@ -380,6 +381,11 @@ struct ar5416_desc { #define AR_TxBaStatus 0x40000000 #define AR_TxStatusRsvd01 0x80000000 +/* + * AR_FrmXmitOK - Frame transmission success flag. If set, the frame was + * transmitted successfully. If clear, no ACK or BA was received to indicate + * successful transmission when we were expecting an ACK or BA. + */ #define AR_FrmXmitOK 0x00000001 #define AR_ExcessiveRetries 0x00000002 #define AR_FIFOUnderrun 0x00000004 |