mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop

Instead of stopping the entire AC queue when enabling aggregation
(which was only done for hardware with aggregation queues) buffer
the packets for each station, and release them to the pending skb
queue once aggregation is turned on successfully.

We get a little more code, but it becomes conceptually simpler and
we can remove the entire virtual queue mechanism from mac80211 in
a follow-up patch.

This changes how mac80211 behaves towards drivers that support
aggregation but have no hardware queues -- those drivers will now
not be handed packets while the aggregation session is being
established, but only after it has been fully established.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index 5b223b216e5..18fd5d1a442 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -73,11 +73,13 @@ enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
  * struct tid_ampdu_tx - TID aggregation information (Tx).
  *
  * @addba_resp_timer: timer for peer's response to addba request
+ * @pending: pending frames queue -- use sta's spinlock to protect
  * @ssn: Starting Sequence Number expected to be aggregated.
  * @dialog_token: dialog token for aggregation session
  */
 struct tid_ampdu_tx {
 	struct timer_list addba_resp_timer;
+	struct sk_buff_head pending;
 	u16 ssn;
 	u8 dialog_token;
 };