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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-08-17 16:16:53 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-08-20 11:35:58 -0400 |
| commit | 3ac64beecd27400d12cc7afb4108eef26c499f6a (patch) | |
| tree | da0220085f68e30fe61ba9b8833dc6311d6dc25e /include/net/mac80211.h | |
| parent | ea416a793d2b611f22b42ba094fd2e5bd30fff43 (diff) | |
mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleep
Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up
with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter
operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify
things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add
a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that
need the multicast address list implement. This new
callback must be atomic, but most drivers either
don't care or just calculate a hash which can be
done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware
non-atomically.
A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170,
mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00,
wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this
new capability.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 76d43e12cc29..bc865206e5f1 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -1219,10 +1219,13 @@ ieee80211_get_alt_retry_rate(const struct ieee80211_hw *hw, * the driver's configure_filter() function which frames should be * passed to mac80211 and which should be filtered out. * - * The configure_filter() callback is invoked with the parameters - * @mc_count and @mc_list for the combined multicast address list - * of all virtual interfaces, @changed_flags telling which flags - * were changed and @total_flags with the new flag states. + * Before configure_filter() is invoked, the prepare_multicast() + * callback is invoked with the parameters @mc_count and @mc_list + * for the combined multicast address list of all virtual interfaces. + * It's use is optional, and it returns a u64 that is passed to + * configure_filter(). Additionally, configure_filter() has the + * arguments @changed_flags telling which flags were changed and + * @total_flags with the new flag states. * * If your device has no multicast address filters your driver will * need to check both the %FIF_ALLMULTI flag and the @mc_count @@ -1375,9 +1378,13 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action { * for association indication. The @changed parameter indicates which * of the bss parameters has changed when a call is made. * + * @prepare_multicast: Prepare for multicast filter configuration. + * This callback is optional, and its return value is passed + * to configure_filter(). This callback must be atomic. + * * @configure_filter: Configure the device's RX filter. * See the section "Frame filtering" for more information. - * This callback must be implemented and atomic. + * This callback must be implemented. * * @set_tim: Set TIM bit. mac80211 calls this function when a TIM bit * must be set or cleared for a given STA. Must be atomic. @@ -1479,10 +1486,12 @@ struct ieee80211_ops { struct ieee80211_vif *vif, struct ieee80211_bss_conf *info, u32 changed); + u64 (*prepare_multicast)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, + int mc_count, struct dev_addr_list *mc_list); void (*configure_filter)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, unsigned int changed_flags, unsigned int *total_flags, - int mc_count, struct dev_addr_list *mc_list); + u64 multicast); int (*set_tim)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, bool set); int (*set_key)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd, |