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Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] cfg80211: allow passing struct device in the wiphy_new call

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On 2 January 2017 at 14:38, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
>> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
>> @@ -3730,8 +3730,8 @@ static inline const char *wiphy_name(const
>> struct wiphy *wiphy)
>>   * Return: A pointer to the new wiphy. This pointer must be
>>   * assigned to each netdev's ieee80211_ptr for proper operation.
>>   */
>> -struct wiphy *wiphy_new_nm(const struct cfg80211_ops *ops, int
>> sizeof_priv,
>> -                        const char *requested_name);
>> +struct wiphy *wiphy_new_nm(struct device *dev, const struct
>> cfg80211_ops *ops,
>> +                        int sizeof_priv, const char
>> *requested_name);
>
> This is obviously missing documentation updates.
>
>>   */
>> -static inline struct wiphy *wiphy_new(const struct cfg80211_ops
>> *ops,
>> +static inline struct wiphy *wiphy_new(struct device *dev,
>> +                                   const struct cfg80211_ops
>> *ops,
>
> Ditto.
>
> It looks like you practically removed all users of set_wiphy_dev(), why
> not do that completely and remove that entirely?

There are 2 users left:
1) ipw2x00 - I missed that one
2) mac80211 - it's a big one as it's used in SET_IEEE80211_DEV

I was planning to work on mac80211 drivers later. This will require
similar modification of ieee80211_alloc_hw.

-- 
Rafał




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