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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-06-07 21:58:37 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-06-10 13:28:37 -0400
commit8f77f3849cc3ae2d6df9301785a3d316ea7d7ee1 (patch)
tree02143d1e81c85f64900546e3e9c2b820f72745d1 /net/mac80211/tx.c
parentfc240e3fc5791c572402b0857948da7b1e68d77f (diff)
mac80211: do not pass PS frames out of mac80211 again
In order to handle powersave frames properly we had needed to pass these out to the device queues again, and introduce the skb->requeue bit. This, however, also has unnecessary overhead by needing to 'clean up' already tried frames, and this clean-up code is also buggy when software encryption is used. Instead of sending the frames via the master netdev queue again, simply put them into the pending queue. This also fixes a problem where frames for that particular station could be reordered when some were still on the software queues and older ones are re-injected into the software queue after them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/tx.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 1436f747531a..bfaa9ce33146 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
sta_info_set_tim_bit(sta);
info->control.jiffies = jiffies;
+ info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_NEED_TXPROCESSING;
skb_queue_tail(&sta->ps_tx_buf, tx->skb);
return TX_QUEUED;
}
@@ -420,7 +421,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
* frame filtering and keeps a station blacklist on its own
* (e.g: p54), so that frames can be delivered unimpeded.
*
- * Note: It should be save to disable the filter now.
+ * Note: It should be safe to disable the filter now.
* As, it is really unlikely that we still have any pending
* frame for this station in the hw's buffers/fifos left,
* that is not rejected with a unsuccessful tx_status yet.