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>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 419f186..178e329 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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);