mac80211: introduce flush operation
We've long lacked a good confirmation that frames
have really gone out, e.g. before going off-channel
for a scan. Add a flush() operation that drivers
can implement to provide that confirmation, and use
it in a few places:
* before scanning sends the nullfunc frames
* after scanning sends the nullfunc frames, if any
* when going idle, to send any pending frames
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index ae18300..d98c45e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -418,9 +418,10 @@
local->next_scan_state = SCAN_DECISION;
local->scan_channel_idx = 0;
+ drv_flush(local, false);
+
ieee80211_configure_filter(local);
- /* TODO: start scan as soon as all nullfunc frames are ACKed */
ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(&local->hw,
&local->scan_work,
IEEE80211_CHANNEL_TIME);
@@ -584,8 +585,16 @@
__set_bit(SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL, &local->scanning);
+ /*
+ * What if the nullfunc frames didn't arrive?
+ */
+ drv_flush(local, false);
+ if (local->ops->flush)
+ *next_delay = 0;
+ else
+ *next_delay = HZ / 10;
+
/* advance to the next channel to be scanned */
- *next_delay = HZ / 10;
local->next_scan_state = SCAN_SET_CHANNEL;
}