mac80211: add helper to free TX skb
Drivers that need to drop a frame before it
can be transmitted will usually simply free
that frame. This is currently fine, but in
the future it'll be needed to tell mac80211
about this case, so add a new routine that
frees a TX skb.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c
index df643ce..e1f6954 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/status.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/status.c
@@ -609,3 +609,9 @@
num_packets, GFP_ATOMIC);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_report_low_ack);
+
+void ieee80211_free_txskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_free_txskb);