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mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 07:18:32 +0000 (12:48 +0530)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:46:20 +0000 (16:46 +0200)
commitf69c2565b99aba798f87bed634cbd44f69c47590
tree07a07b39d1a9a074ba4833dc9fac02ca2bda73ab
parent608bebea26c123c929985a05c76b7afd74446bcc
mac80211: allow driver to handle packet-loss mechanism

Based on consecutive msdu failures, mac80211 triggers CQM packet-loss
mechanism. Drivers like ath10k that have its own connection monitoring
algorithm, offloaded to firmware for triggering station kickout. In case
of station kickout, driver will report low ack status by mac80211 API
(ieee80211_report_low_ack).

This flag will enable the driver to completely rely on firmware events
for station kickout and bypass mac80211 packet loss mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/debugfs.c
net/mac80211/status.c