[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: Remove control.sta from struct ieee80211_tx_info and restructure tx-path

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2012-07-14 12:10 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 07/13/2012 08:52 PM, Thomas Huehn wrote:
>> The pointer control.sta is removed from ieee80211_tx_info to free up sufficient
>> memory in SKB_CB on the tx-path to enable new annotations per data packet e.g.
>> support of upcoming Transmit Power Control (TPC).
>> Now the control.sta pointer is put on the stack where it is passed as function
>> parameter to the .tx equivalent (ieee80211_ops) of each affected wireless
>> driver. Therefore a new structure ieee80211_tx_control is added to mac80211.h
>> which holds the sta structure instead.
>> 
>> ---
>>  .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c  |  6 +++--
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
>> index 9e79d47..a7be68d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
>> @@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ static void brcms_set_basic_rate(struct brcm_rateset *rs, u16 rate, bool is_br)
>>  	}
>>  }
>>  
>> -static void brcms_ops_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
>> +static void brcms_ops_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
>> +			 struct ieee80211_tx_control *control,
>> +			 struct sk_buff *skb)
> 
> Fix indent here (if it is not a mailer issue).
Indentation looks correct to me. The + in front of the 'static' moves
the rest of the line one character further to the right, whereas in the
other lines it's compensated by the tabstop.

- Felix