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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2007-12-19 01:31:26 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-01-29 00:09:36 +0100 |
| commit | 32bfd35d4b63bd63de4bb0d791ef049c3c868726 (patch) | |
| tree | c1c213a35a00bcbe71a2ecc6521e19dec66cf6eb /block | |
| parent | Add rtl8180 wireless driver (diff) | |
| download | linux-32bfd35d4b63bd63de4bb0d791ef049c3c868726.tar.xz linux-32bfd35d4b63bd63de4bb0d791ef049c3c868726.zip | |
mac80211: dont use interface indices in drivers
This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.
This has two advantages:
* removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
for working with network namespaces and performance
* allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
having to allocate own lists/hash tables
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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