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Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: include ieee80211_local in chanctx

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On 10 March 2014 21:27, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:19 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
>> Channel contexts are implicitly bound to hw
>> already so make it possible to dereference it
>> through the channel context itself.
>>
>> This will make it possible to reduce number of
>> arguments for chanctx-related functions.
>
> I don't really see much point in this, is there ever anything where we
> really get only a channel context and don't already have the local
> pointer?
>
> With interfaces, at least, we need it because we can get an interface
> through e.g. do_stop or do_open, so we don't have an easy way to
> reference local, but here? I don't think our functions have so many
> arguments that it's worth putting a pointer into the struct instead.

It just seems silly to me to pass local+chanctx all the time while
chanctx is already implicitly bound to a single hw.

I'm okay to drop this though. It's not really important.


Michał
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