From 3b04ddde02cf1b6f14f2697da5c20eca5715017f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 01:40:57 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/mac80211/ieee80211.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211') diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c index 0cdcf0d0c6c..57ec8880bb1 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; -- cgit v1.2.3