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Re: [RFC 03/12] mac80211: prepare ieee80211_frame_duration to per-vif

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On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 09:39 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
> In preparation for multi-channel operation.
> 
> Ath5k driver needs to be fixed. It uses
> ieee80211_generic_frame_duration() through ath5k_hw_get_frame_duration()
> which itself and it's parent callers have no access (except
> bss_info_changed handler) to sdata pointer.
> 
> This requires us to preserve ieee80211_local pointer in the argument
> list of ieee80211_generic_frame_duration.
> 
> I think we should get rid of ieee80211_local pointer eventually from
> here, but to do that we need to deal with ath5k first.

I think we should just pass the band instead of the local pointer. Then
ath5k would be trivial to fix too (band info is part of TX info).

johannes

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