On Friday, March 13, 2015 04:37:25 PM Florian Westphal wrote: > its embededded inside rate_driver_data of the ieee80211_tx_info struct, > which in turn is stored in skb->cb[]. > > In order to shrink cb, we need to shrink ieee80211_tx_info which means > to downsize all users first. > > Alternatively, one might be able to remove kref but > its less intrusive/simpler to use u32 for timeout handling. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> > --- u32 jiffies... that's a lot of pointing (well not so much) and really ugly casting (a lot). I guess it would be easier to just use a "per-queue" timeout watchdog like almost everybody else. This way, the driver will be ready for the next skb->cb shrink as well. carl9170_tx_ampdu_timeout can be completely removed. Regards, Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
