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mac80211: explain TX retry and status 

Add some more documentation including an example so that
it's clearer what should be done for TX retries.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg 2009-08-07 16:23:43 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
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@ -338,6 +338,21 @@ enum mac80211_rate_control_flags {
*
* When used for transmit status reporting, the driver should
* always report the rate along with the flags it used.
*
* &struct ieee80211_tx_info contains an array of these structs
* in the control information, and it will be filled by the rate
* control algorithm according to what should be sent. For example,
* if this array contains, in the format { <idx>, <count> } the
* information
* { 3, 2 }, { 2, 2 }, { 1, 4 }, { -1, 0 }, { -1, 0 }
* then this means that the frame should be transmitted
* up to twice at rate 3, up to twice at rate 2, and up to four
* times at rate 1 if it doesn't get acknowledged. Say it gets
* acknowledged by the peer after the fifth attempt, the status
* information should then contain
* { 3, 2 }, { 2, 2 }, { 1, 1 }, { -1, 0 } ...
* since it was transmitted twice at rate 3, twice at rate 2
* and once at rate 1 after which we received an acknowledgement.
*/
struct ieee80211_tx_rate {
s8 idx;