On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 12:17 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > The tx path doesn't seem to pass in more than the hardware and the skb, > and we don't always need to lookup the VIF, so looking it up early is > probably a waste. > > mac80211 could be changed to pass in the VIF in the xmit path, > and then we could make sure that is passed through the entire > xmit process, but that would touch a lot of drivers and code. It does pass this through in the skb's CB. > I'm more than happy to test any patches if someone thinks up > a different approach. I just don't want drivers using struct net_device pointers anywhere, because they shouldn't have to worry about them. johannes -- 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
