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wifi: rtw89: enhance connection stability when triggering beacon loss
authorDian-Syuan Yang <dian_syuan0116@realtek.com>
Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:09:26 +0000 (11:09 +0800)
committerPing-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:27:04 +0000 (16:27 +0800)
commit6a0b7392a6f5487fb58704926a24b1e2ee2762e9
tree7d573d3753c2f438d2df3a8fd80d669f50cdedda
parent8c96752d99c0b094af68317a8c701b09bd0862d9
wifi: rtw89: enhance connection stability when triggering beacon loss

If the driver supports ack status reports of TX frames, mac80211 allows it
to detect AP if it's alive and determine whether the client can maintain
the connection by sending null-data. Therefore, refine the flow to let
driver inform mac80211 to enable beacon loss work to track AP's status
upon receiving beacon loss event.

Signed-off-by: Dian-Syuan Yang <dian_syuan0116@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251229030926.27004-13-pkshih@realtek.com
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c