mac80211: move TX station pointer and restructure TX
Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
index df92031..a81117a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
@@ -22,9 +22,11 @@
return sdata;
}
-static inline void drv_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static inline void drv_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+ struct ieee80211_tx_control *control,
+ struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- local->ops->tx(&local->hw, skb);
+ local->ops->tx(&local->hw, control, skb);
}
static inline void drv_get_et_strings(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,