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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-09 01:40:57 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:52 -0700 |
| commit | 3b04ddde02cf1b6f14f2697da5c20eca5715017f (patch) | |
| tree | 9da1341a5a399a507b5ea6bf5a3047506b8d8f8f /net/mac80211 | |
| parent | b95cce3576813ac3f86bafa6b5daaaaf7574b0fe (diff) | |
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[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/ieee80211.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c index 0cdcf0d0c6ca..57ec8880bb1a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c @@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ void ieee80211_if_mgmt_setup(struct net_device *dev) dev->open = ieee80211_mgmt_open; dev->stop = ieee80211_mgmt_stop; dev->type = ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM; - dev->hard_header_parse = header_parse_80211; dev->uninit = ieee80211_if_reinit; dev->destructor = ieee80211_if_free; } @@ -546,10 +545,19 @@ static void ieee80211_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *dev) netif_tx_unlock(local->mdev); } +static const struct header_ops ieee80211_header_ops = { + .create = eth_header, + .parse = header_parse_80211, + .rebuild = eth_rebuild_header, + .cache = eth_header_cache, + .cache_update = eth_header_cache_update, +}; + /* Must not be called for mdev and apdev */ void ieee80211_if_setup(struct net_device *dev) { ether_setup(dev); + dev->header_ops = &ieee80211_header_ops; dev->hard_start_xmit = ieee80211_subif_start_xmit; dev->wireless_handlers = &ieee80211_iw_handler_def; dev->set_multicast_list = ieee80211_set_multicast_list; @@ -1197,7 +1205,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len, mdev->open = ieee80211_master_open; mdev->stop = ieee80211_master_stop; mdev->type = ARPHRD_IEEE80211; - mdev->hard_header_parse = header_parse_80211; + mdev->header_ops = &ieee80211_header_ops; sdata->type = IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_AP; sdata->dev = mdev; |
