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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-11-04 10:18:10 (GMT)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-11-09 21:05:48 (GMT)
commit6096de7fd4eeda305e114e7d74e6f47404590425 (patch)
treed1593ce73555299a8b209840f2db7437b9c94cc4 /include/net
parentd0ce1855eab098c6257f1321b02b70f916064aaa (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-6096de7fd4eeda305e114e7d74e6f47404590425.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index eddf492..b9b9c94 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1309,6 +1309,16 @@ ieee80211_get_alt_retry_rate(const struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
}
/**
+ * ieee80211_free_txskb - free TX skb
+ * @hw: the hardware
+ * @skb: the skb
+ *
+ * Free a transmit skb. Use this funtion when some failure
+ * to transmit happened and thus status cannot be reported.
+ */
+void ieee80211_free_txskb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+/**
* DOC: Hardware crypto acceleration
*
* mac80211 is capable of taking advantage of many hardware