mac80211: reduce reliance on netdev
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have
a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so
prepare for that by reducing the reliance on
having a netdev. This patch moves the name
and address fields into the sdata struct and
uses them from there all over. Some work is
needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not
a lot of work and in slow paths anyway.
In doing so, this also reduces the number of
pointer dereferences in many places, because
of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming
sdata->vif.addr.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 2aff490..e94cc52 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -659,12 +659,14 @@
* @type: type of this virtual interface
* @bss_conf: BSS configuration for this interface, either our own
* or the BSS we're associated to
+ * @addr: address of this interface
* @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to
* sizeof(void *).
*/
struct ieee80211_vif {
enum nl80211_iftype type;
struct ieee80211_bss_conf bss_conf;
+ u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
/* must be last */
u8 drv_priv[0] __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(void *))));
};