From c555b9b3713e05586fabe85f4e46f28859e72930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:23:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: explain TX retry and status Add some more documentation including an example so that it's clearer what should be done for TX retries. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- include/net/mac80211.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index e2fb5767e1fa..467eed71be22 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -338,6 +338,21 @@ enum mac80211_rate_control_flags { * * When used for transmit status reporting, the driver should * always report the rate along with the flags it used. + * + * &struct ieee80211_tx_info contains an array of these structs + * in the control information, and it will be filled by the rate + * control algorithm according to what should be sent. For example, + * if this array contains, in the format { , } the + * information + * { 3, 2 }, { 2, 2 }, { 1, 4 }, { -1, 0 }, { -1, 0 } + * then this means that the frame should be transmitted + * up to twice at rate 3, up to twice at rate 2, and up to four + * times at rate 1 if it doesn't get acknowledged. Say it gets + * acknowledged by the peer after the fifth attempt, the status + * information should then contain + * { 3, 2 }, { 2, 2 }, { 1, 1 }, { -1, 0 } ... + * since it was transmitted twice at rate 3, twice at rate 2 + * and once at rate 1 after which we received an acknowledgement. */ struct ieee80211_tx_rate { s8 idx; -- 2.30.2