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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)
treee3ca3e7d233944bbc271c650c8b037c3a6652d98 /drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
parent43f12d47f0580e04e26c14c03cb19cea9687854e (diff)
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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/at76c50x-usb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
index 1476314..10b4393 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ static void at76_mac80211_tx_callback(struct urb *urb)
ieee80211_wake_queues(priv->hw);
}
-static int at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct at76_priv *priv = hw->priv;
struct at76_tx_buffer *tx_buffer = priv->bulk_out_buffer;
@@ -1741,7 +1741,8 @@ static int at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (priv->tx_urb->status == -EINPROGRESS) {
wiphy_err(priv->hw->wiphy,
"%s called while tx urb is pending\n", __func__);
- return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+ return;
}
/* The following code lines are important when the device is going to
@@ -1795,8 +1796,6 @@ static int at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
priv->tx_urb,
priv->tx_urb->hcpriv, priv->tx_urb->complete);
}
-
- return 0;
}
static int at76_mac80211_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
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