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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-11-25 17:46:19 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-12-21 18:38:52 -0500
commit47846c9b0c10808d9337d2e7d09361f3e0a0a71a (patch)
tree8e5d0dbf3309b7868fa73a888f9561ffea1580e3 /net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
parentabe60632f311d515b082b450504ee24006023951 (diff)
mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 419f186cfcf..178e329f925 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ typedef unsigned __bitwise__ ieee80211_tx_result;
struct ieee80211_tx_data {
struct sk_buff *skb;
- struct net_device *dev;
struct ieee80211_local *local;
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
struct sta_info *sta;
@@ -433,6 +432,8 @@ struct ieee80211_sub_if_data {
int drop_unencrypted;
+ char name[IFNAMSIZ];
+
/*
* keep track of whether the HT opmode (stored in
* vif.bss_info.ht_operation_mode) is valid.
@@ -937,6 +938,8 @@ void ieee80211_rx_bss_put(struct ieee80211_local *local,
struct ieee80211_bss *bss);
/* interface handling */
+int ieee80211_iface_init(void);
+void ieee80211_iface_exit(void);
int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
struct net_device **new_dev, enum nl80211_iftype type,
struct vif_params *params);