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[09/12] iwlwifi: Remove local iwl_bcast_addr and use ether_broadcast_addr

Message ID af831d8873ffcc36014244f76d21cd6aaf5aca9c.1522479608.git.joe@perches.com (mailing list archive)
State Rejected
Delegated to: Luca Coelho
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Commit Message

Joe Perches March 31, 2018, 7:05 a.m. UTC
Use the new global to save a little bit of object code.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h  | 1 -
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/scan.c | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c  | 4 +---
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Luca Coelho July 7, 2018, 7:40 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 00:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Use the new global to save a little bit of object code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---

I took this one to our internal tree and it will be applied as part of
our normal upstreaming process.

Thanks!

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Luca.
Luca Coelho Sept. 7, 2018, 10:46 a.m. UTC | #2
On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 10:40 +0300, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 00:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Use the new global to save a little bit of object code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> 
> I took this one to our internal tree and it will be applied as part
> of our normal upstreaming process.

It seems that the patch to etherdevice.h never got applied upstream, so
I'm actually dropping this patch.

Please resend if it becomes relevant again.

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Cheers,
Luca.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h
index cceb4cd8e501..157cc21c5dfb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@  struct iwl_sensitivity_ranges {
  *
  ****************************************************************************/
 void iwl_update_chain_flags(struct iwl_priv *priv);
-extern const u8 iwl_bcast_addr[ETH_ALEN];
 
 #define IWL_OPERATION_MODE_AUTO     0
 #define IWL_OPERATION_MODE_HT_ONLY  1
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/scan.c
index 17e6a32384d3..e40d9b9fc4a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/scan.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@  static int iwlagn_request_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
 		/* use bcast addr, will not be transmitted but must be valid */
 		cmd_len = iwl_fill_probe_req(
 					(struct ieee80211_mgmt *)scan->data,
-					iwl_bcast_addr, NULL, 0,
+					ether_broadcast_addr, NULL, 0,
 					NULL, 0,
 					scan_cmd_size - sizeof(*scan));
 		break;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c
index de6ec9b7ace4..177a366f7ad3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ 
 #include "dev.h"
 #include "agn.h"
 
-const u8 iwl_bcast_addr[ETH_ALEN] = { 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF };
-
 static int iwl_sta_ucode_activate(struct iwl_priv *priv, u8 sta_id)
 {
 	lockdep_assert_held(&priv->sta_lock);
@@ -1287,7 +1285,7 @@  int iwlagn_alloc_bcast_station(struct iwl_priv *priv,
 	u8 sta_id;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&priv->sta_lock);
-	sta_id = iwl_prep_station(priv, ctx, iwl_bcast_addr, false, NULL);
+	sta_id = iwl_prep_station(priv, ctx, ether_broadcast_addr, false, NULL);
 	if (sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION) {
 		IWL_ERR(priv, "Unable to prepare broadcast station\n");
 		spin_unlock_bh(&priv->sta_lock);