mac80211: make software rate control optional
Some devices implement the entire rate control in
firmware in some way, like wl1271 or like iwlwifi
which does some things in software but not a lot.
Therefore generic software rate control is rather
useless for them and just adds avoidable overhead
to the transmit path.
It's fairly simple to let drivers indicate that
they do not need rate control, but they need to
fulfil a number of conditions that we encode in
WARN_ONs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rate.h b/net/mac80211/rate.h
index 2ab5ad9..cb9bd1f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rate.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/rate.h
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
void *priv_sta = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
+ if (!ref)
+ return;
+
sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[local->hw.conf.channel->band];
ref->ops->rate_init(ref->priv, sband, ista, priv_sta);
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@
struct ieee80211_sta *ista = &sta->sta;
void *priv_sta = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
- if (ref->ops->rate_update)
+ if (ref && ref->ops->rate_update)
ref->ops->rate_update(ref->priv, sband, ista,
priv_sta, changed);
}
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
struct rate_control_ref *ref = sta->rate_ctrl;
- if (sta->debugfs.dir && ref->ops->add_sta_debugfs)
+ if (ref && sta->debugfs.dir && ref->ops->add_sta_debugfs)
ref->ops->add_sta_debugfs(ref->priv, sta->rate_ctrl_priv,
sta->debugfs.dir);
#endif
@@ -107,7 +110,7 @@
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS
struct rate_control_ref *ref = sta->rate_ctrl;
- if (ref->ops->remove_sta_debugfs)
+ if (ref && ref->ops->remove_sta_debugfs)
ref->ops->remove_sta_debugfs(ref->priv, sta->rate_ctrl_priv);
#endif
}