Traditionally, drivers were given a struct net_device * in order to identify the wireless device. This was the master device, but I'm trying to cut down it's use. Now, there long was a comment that this might change. That time has come, this patch gives back a struct ieee80211_hw pointer.
Currently, struct ieee80211_hw contains both static data (almost all of the function pointers except one) and data that could possibly be per-device even for a single driver. Hence patch also introduces struct ieee80211_ops and moves the function pointers from ieee80211_hw into it. This makes ieee80211_hw be the pure hardware description and allows drivers to make have their ieee80211_ops static, thereby reducing the struct size significantly. Note that the patch changes the meaning of ieee80211_hw, previously it was allocated by the driver and given to the stack as a hardware description, now it is allocated by ieee80211alloc_hw() and then the driver fills it before calling ieee80211_register_hw(). A later patch fixes the FIXME introduced here where hw fragmentation is checked by having a function assigned or not---if functions are supposed to be assigned now for all hw we need a new flag for that if some driver has boards that can and other boards that cannot support it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch attached due to size.
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