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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h index d393e8f02102..6d95832db06d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-prph.h @@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ * device. A queue maps to only one (selectable by driver) Tx DMA channel, * but one DMA channel may take input from several queues. * - * Tx DMA channels have dedicated purposes. For 4965, they are used as follows: + * Tx DMA channels have dedicated purposes. For 4965, they are used as follows + * (cf. default_queue_to_tx_fifo in iwl-4965.c): * * 0 -- EDCA BK (background) frames, lowest priority * 1 -- EDCA BE (best effort) frames, normal priority @@ -265,9 +266,21 @@ * 6 -- HCCA long frames * 7 -- not used by driver (device-internal only) * + * For 5000 series and up, they are used slightly differently + * (cf. iwl5000_default_queue_to_tx_fifo in iwl-5000.c): + * + * 0 -- EDCA BK (background) frames, lowest priority + * 1 -- EDCA BE (best effort) frames, normal priority + * 2 -- EDCA VI (video) frames, higher priority + * 3 -- EDCA VO (voice) and management frames, highest priority + * 4 -- (TBD) + * 5 -- HCCA short frames + * 6 -- HCCA long frames + * 7 -- Commands + * * Driver should normally map queues 0-6 to Tx DMA/FIFO channels 0-6. - * In addition, driver can map queues 7-15 to Tx DMA/FIFO channels 0-3 to - * support 11n aggregation via EDCA DMA channels. + * In addition, driver can map the remaining queues to Tx DMA/FIFO + * channels 0-3 to support 11n aggregation via EDCA DMA channels. * * The driver sets up each queue to work in one of two modes: * |