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/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
index 224e03a..5099e53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
@@ -1830,12 +1830,14 @@
}
static void
-mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, struct sk_buff *skb)
+mwl8k_txq_xmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ int index,
+ struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
+ struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct mwl8k_priv *priv = hw->priv;
struct ieee80211_tx_info *tx_info;
struct mwl8k_vif *mwl8k_vif;
- struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
struct ieee80211_hdr *wh;
struct mwl8k_tx_queue *txq;
struct mwl8k_tx_desc *tx;
@@ -1867,7 +1869,6 @@
wh = &((struct mwl8k_dma_data *)skb->data)->wh;
tx_info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
- sta = tx_info->control.sta;
mwl8k_vif = MWL8K_VIF(tx_info->control.vif);
if (tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ) {
@@ -2019,8 +2020,8 @@
tx->pkt_phys_addr = cpu_to_le32(dma);
tx->pkt_len = cpu_to_le16(skb->len);
tx->rate_info = 0;
- if (!priv->ap_fw && tx_info->control.sta != NULL)
- tx->peer_id = MWL8K_STA(tx_info->control.sta)->peer_id;
+ if (!priv->ap_fw && sta != NULL)
+ tx->peer_id = MWL8K_STA(sta)->peer_id;
else
tx->peer_id = 0;
@@ -4364,7 +4365,9 @@
/*
* Core driver operations.
*/
-static void mwl8k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void mwl8k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct ieee80211_tx_control *control,
+ struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct mwl8k_priv *priv = hw->priv;
int index = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
@@ -4376,7 +4379,7 @@
return;
}
- mwl8k_txq_xmit(hw, index, skb);
+ mwl8k_txq_xmit(hw, index, control->sta, skb);
}
static int mwl8k_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)