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Re: [PATCH 08/10] cfg80211: make regulatory_request use wiphy_idx instead of wiphy

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 02:11 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> >> * Driver hints which never have the wiphy NULL
>> >> * __regulatory_hint: called from 11d hints, and from the workqueue
>> >> that processes the pending requests (which can come from userspace or
>> >> from drivers right now).
>> >
>> > Ok, but in the first case you can't have NULL, and in the second you
>> > could just inline it. It's not an operation that requires an inline here
>> > for it.
>>
>> Sure, its just called twice
>
> Yeah but the first call is entirely pointless since wiphy cannot be NULL
> there. I don't want to encourage random error-checking accessors where
> writing wiphy->wiphy_idx is perfectly fine.

That's the thing wiphy does not have a wiphy_idx, the
cfg80211_registered_device does.

>>  and I think it makes the code more
>> readable to use a routine, what if I just move it to core.c or reg.c.
>
> If you really think it makes the code that much more readable then
> please just use it once in the case where a NULL argument can happen
> (the workqueue), and move it to that code.

OK

  Luis
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