mac80211: dont use interface indices in drivers

This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.

This has two advantages:
 * removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
   for working with network namespaces and performance
 * allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
   having to allocate own lists/hash tables

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2007-12-19 01:31:26 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent f653211197
commit 32bfd35d4b
29 changed files with 205 additions and 174 deletions

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@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ struct ath5k_softc {
unsigned int curmode; /* current phy mode */
struct ieee80211_channel *curchan; /* current h/w channel */
int iface_id; /* add/remove_interface id */
struct ieee80211_vif *vif;
struct {
u8 rxflags; /* radiotap rx flags */