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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2010-06-10 10:21:50 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-06-14 15:39:28 -0400 |
| commit | 73a72a81d27b71f9ace31668d2dd7f3ac1c8228e (patch) | |
| tree | 114b1a333c53a328d1a55551ea591fe8f3b5d2d7 /net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | |
| parent | 85ad181ea78861f69b007599cec9e6ba33fcdf8a (diff) | |
mac80211: update aggregation documentation
Even before the recent changes, the documentation
for TX aggregation was somewhat out of date. Update
it and also add documentation for the RX side.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/agg-rx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c index a843df26f384..965b272499fd 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c @@ -13,6 +13,29 @@ * published by the Free Software Foundation. */ +/** + * DOC: RX A-MPDU aggregation + * + * Aggregation on the RX side requires only implementing the + * @ampdu_action callback that is invoked to start/stop any + * block-ack sessions for RX aggregation. + * + * When RX aggregation is started by the peer, the driver is + * notified via @ampdu_action function, with the + * %IEEE80211_AMPDU_RX_START action, and may reject the request + * in which case a negative response is sent to the peer, if it + * accepts it a positive response is sent. + * + * While the session is active, the device/driver are required + * to de-aggregate frames and pass them up one by one to mac80211, + * which will handle the reorder buffer. + * + * When the aggregation session is stopped again by the peer or + * ourselves, the driver's @ampdu_action function will be called + * with the action %IEEE80211_AMPDU_RX_STOP. In this case, the + * call must not fail. + */ + #include <linux/ieee80211.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <net/mac80211.h> |