mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start API

Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session
timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases
where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead.

The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc
drivers.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Reviewed-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 fdca52cf88d..bbdd2a86a94 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
  * @addba_resp_timer: timer for peer's response to addba request
  * @pending: pending frames queue -- use sta's spinlock to protect
  * @dialog_token: dialog token for aggregation session
+ * @timeout: session timeout value to be filled in ADDBA requests
  * @state: session state (see above)
  * @stop_initiator: initiator of a session stop
  * @tx_stop: TX DelBA frame when stopping
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ struct tid_ampdu_tx {
         struct timer_list addba_resp_timer;
         struct sk_buff_head pending;
         unsigned long state;
+        u16 timeout;
         u8 dialog_token;
         u8 stop_initiator;
         bool tx_stop;