mac80211: track receiver's aggregation reorder buffer size

The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the
buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max
buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as
the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0
instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it
isn't possible to honour this request.

In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the
addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to
the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called
with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That
way the driver can limit the number of subframes in
aggregates appropriately.

Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the
addition of the new argument -- they all need to be
updated separately to use this variable!

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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
index 870df8c42622..ecfb80b059d1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ static int carl9170_op_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                                     struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
                                     enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action action,
                                     struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
-                                    u16 tid, u16 *ssn)
+                                    u16 tid, u16 *ssn, u8 buf_size)
 {
         struct ar9170 *ar = hw->priv;
         struct carl9170_sta_info *sta_info = (void *) sta->drv_priv;