mac80211: unify SW/offload remain-on-channel

Redesign all the off-channel code, getting rid of
the generic off-channel work concept, replacing
it with a simple remain-on-channel list.

This fixes a number of small issues with the ROC
implementation:
 * offloaded remain-on-channel couldn't be queued,
   now we can queue it as well, if needed
 * in iwlwifi (the only user) offloaded ROC is
   mutually exclusive with scanning, use the new
   queue to handle that case -- I expect that it
   will later depend on a HW flag

The bigger issue though is that there's a bad bug
in the current implementation: if we get a mgmt
TX request while HW roc is active, and this new
request has a wait time, we actually schedule a
software ROC instead since we can't guarantee the
existing offloaded ROC will still be that long.
To fix this, the queuing mechanism was needed.

The queuing mechanism for offloaded ROC isn't yet
optimal, ideally we should add API to have the HW
extend the ROC if needed. We could add that later
but for now use a software implementation.

Overall, this unifies the behaviour between the
offloaded and software-implemented case as much
as possible.

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

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 6e700bf8d4a5..d152f54064fd 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -2184,9 +2184,6 @@ enum ieee80211_rate_control_changed {
  *      normally except for the %IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN flag. When the
  *      duration (which will always be non-zero) expires, the driver must call
  *      ieee80211_remain_on_channel_expired().
- *      The driver must not call ieee80211_remain_on_channel_expired() before
- *      the TX status for a frame that was sent off-channel, otherwise the TX
- *      status is reported to userspace in an invalid way.
  *      Note that this callback may be called while the device is in IDLE and
  *      must be accepted in this case.
  *      This callback may sleep.