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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-03-05 11:24:25 -0800 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-03-06 15:16:09 -0500 |
| commit | fa23cb04b38a9950b21ee756e4419a737d496371 (patch) | |
| tree | bd32f855439f23370e6e3fa4b712939004ab9d3a /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h | |
| parent | 015c15e1067c988fc87fb550b222f075c8d3f47c (diff) | |
iwlwifi: make sta lock private & BH lock
Now that the transport has its own locking,
there's no need to have the sta_lock in the
shared data. Also, it can be a BH lock as
it's not used from IRQ handlers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h index 6e5bf0a14609..dc57522594a6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h @@ -719,6 +719,12 @@ struct iwl_priv { /*data shared among all the driver's layers */ struct iwl_shared *shrd; + /* + * protects the station table, if shrd->lock and sta_lock are + * needed, shrd->lock must be acquired first + */ + spinlock_t sta_lock; + /* ieee device used by generic ieee processing code */ struct ieee80211_hw *hw; struct ieee80211_channel *ieee_channels; |