mac80211: make ieee80211_send_bar available for drivers

To properly maintain the peer's block ack window, the driver needs to be
able to control the new starting sequence number that is sent along with
the BlockAckReq frame.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 5e5029b22ac7..fc4806c6097f 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -3225,6 +3225,19 @@ void ieee80211_remain_on_channel_expired(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 void ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, u16 ba_rx_bitmap,
                                   const u8 *addr);
 
+/**
+ * ieee80211_send_bar - send a BlockAckReq frame
+ *
+ * can be used to flush pending frames from the peer's aggregation reorder
+ * buffer.
+ *
+ * @vif: &struct ieee80211_vif pointer from the add_interface callback.
+ * @ra: the peer's destination address
+ * @tid: the TID of the aggregation session
+ * @ssn: the new starting sequence number for the receiver
+ */
+void ieee80211_send_bar(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, u8 *ra, u16 tid, u16 ssn);
+
 /* Rate control API */
 
 /**