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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-02-24 14:42:06 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-02-25 15:32:34 -0500
commit7bb4568372856688bc070917265bce0b88bb7d4d (patch)
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mac80211: make tx() operation return void
The return value of the tx operation is commonly misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and they must also properly manage the queues (if they didn't, mac80211 would already warn). Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY value also allows significant cleanups of the TX TX handling code in mac80211. Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the old "return -1" there was wrong. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k] Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00] Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi] Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/b43')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
index 22bc9f1..57eb5b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -3203,7 +3203,7 @@ static void b43_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex);
}
-static int b43_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+static void b43_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct b43_wl *wl = hw_to_b43_wl(hw);
@@ -3211,14 +3211,12 @@ static int b43_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (unlikely(skb->len < 2 + 2 + 6)) {
/* Too short, this can't be a valid frame. */
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
- return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+ return;
}
B43_WARN_ON(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags);
skb_queue_tail(&wl->tx_queue, skb);
ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work);
-
- return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
static void b43_qos_params_upload(struct b43_wldev *dev,