mac80211: generalise work handling

In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes
other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other
purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on
another channel) will be useful.

To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME
work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The
API can currently handle probing a specific AP,
authentication and association. The MLME previously
handled probe/authentication as one step and will
continue to do so, but they are separate in the new
work handling.

Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for
existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX
path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right
now will do for its combined probe/auth step.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index e93bc558d785..d35023ce7fa1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -395,6 +395,8 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len,
 
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&local->scan_work, ieee80211_scan_work);
 
+	ieee80211_work_init(local);
+
 	INIT_WORK(&local->restart_work, ieee80211_restart_work);
 
 	INIT_WORK(&local->reconfig_filter, ieee80211_reconfig_filter);