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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-06-17 13:13:00 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-07-10 14:57:54 -0400 |
| commit | f1d58c2521eb160178b2151d6326d8dc5d7c8560 (patch) | |
| tree | af373bb1a5fbb6bc9436d29095133992d33d6598 /net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | |
| parent | 18ad01c43918751cc22f8ee28f6b38b8954a55b2 (diff) | |
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mac80211: push rx status into skb->cb
Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
optimised on its own schedule.
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.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h index 68eb5052179a..c65c65a9e697 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h @@ -943,8 +943,7 @@ extern const struct iw_handler_def ieee80211_iw_handler_def; /* STA code */ void ieee80211_sta_setup_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); ieee80211_rx_result ieee80211_sta_rx_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, - struct sk_buff *skb, - struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status); + struct sk_buff *skb); int ieee80211_sta_commit(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); int ieee80211_sta_set_ssid(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, char *ssid, size_t len); int ieee80211_sta_get_ssid(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, char *ssid, size_t *len); @@ -967,8 +966,7 @@ void ieee80211_sta_restart(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); void ieee80211_ibss_notify_scan_completed(struct ieee80211_local *local); void ieee80211_ibss_setup_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata); ieee80211_rx_result -ieee80211_ibss_rx_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb, - struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status); +ieee80211_ibss_rx_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb); struct sta_info *ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *bssid, u8 *addr, u32 supp_rates); int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, @@ -988,9 +986,7 @@ int ieee80211_scan_results(struct ieee80211_local *local, char *buf, size_t len); void ieee80211_scan_cancel(struct ieee80211_local *local); ieee80211_rx_result -ieee80211_scan_rx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, - struct sk_buff *skb, - struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status); +ieee80211_scan_rx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb); int ieee80211_sta_set_extra_ie(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, const char *ie, size_t len); |