[PATCH v2 0/6] nl80211: add support for control port tx status

[Markus Theil]

On 6/21/20 5:29 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:32:55AM +0200, Markus Theil wrote:
>> This patch series adds support for ctrl port tx status over nl80211.
>> With this series, a clean separation between mgmt+ctrl (over nl80211)
>> and in-kernel data path is possible for the first time.
>>
>> For each send control port frame, a cookie is returned in extended ack
>> data. Therefore, a custom ack handler argument for send_and_recv is introduced.
>> Afterwards, this is used by tx control port to plug in a cookie handler for
>> netlink acks.
>>
>> When the kernel returns a tx status notification, the same event, as with
>> socket tx status support is triggered. In the future, it is possible to
>> compare only cookies on send/tx report if desired so.
>>   nl80211: add custom ack handler to send_and_recv
>>   nl80211: handle control port tx status events over nl80211
>>   nl80211: use control port tx (status) in AP mode if possible
>>   nl80211: print tx cookie value for ctrl port tx
>>   nl80211: add ack handler for extack cookies
>>   nl80211: use ext ack handler for tx ctrl port
> Thanks, applied with some cleanup and fixes. I also added a workaround
> for the mac80211 TX status delivery issue so that this can be enabled
> with the current kernel (i.e., anything that advertises the new driver
> capability) without having to wait for the kernel side issues to be
> resolved and some potentially special handling for the capability flag.
>
Thanks, I already send a fix to the kernel wireless mailing list. If this fix gets
into 5.8, then no further flag is needed, as 5.8 will be the first kernel with tx
status reports for nl80211 ctrl port.