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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

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 @@ struct ieee80211_conf {
  * @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 *))));
 };