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mt76: add support for reporting tx status with skb

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MT76x2/MT76x0 has somewhat unreliable tx status reporting, and for that
reason the driver currently does not report per-skb tx ack status at all.
This breaks things like client idle polling, which relies on the tx ack
status of a transmitted nullfunc frame.

This patch adds code to report skb-attached tx status if requested by
mac80211 or the rate control module. Since tx status is polled from a
simple FIFO register, the code needs to account for the possibility of
tx status events getting lost.

The code keeps a list of skbs for which tx status is required and passes
them to mac80211 once tx status has been filled in and the DMA queue is
done with it.
If a tx status event is not received after one second, the status rates
are cleared, and a succesful ACK is indicated to avoid spurious disassoc
during assoc or client polling.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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Felix Fietkau 2018-10-25 16:11:34 +02:00
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