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rtlwifi: support accurate nullfunc frame tx ack report

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In order to realize the keep-alive mechanism in mac80211 stack, reporting
accurate tx ack status for nullfunc frame is added in this commit.

If current frame is nullfunc frame, we ask firmware to report by filling
TX report bit in TX descriptor. After this frame DMA done, TX interrupt is
triggered but TX status is unknown at this moment, so enqueue this skb
into tx_report->queue. Finally, C2H report will be received if the frame
is transmitted successfully or retried over, and then we report to mac80211
with IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK flag only if it's successful. Otherwise, if
failure or timeout (one second), we report to mac80211 without this flag.

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Tzu-En Huang 2018-05-18 17:29:54 +08:00 • committed by Kalle Valo
commit 6acfbb81ab
7 changed files with 112 additions and 21 deletions
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