linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211/wlcore: Add ieee80211_hw variable to get_expected

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Message-ID: <1470375614.2977.1.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Fri, 05 Aug 2016 07:40:14 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@...com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>, Yaniv Machani <yanivma@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211/wlcore: Add ieee80211_hw variable to
 get_expected_throughput

On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 14:31 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@...com>
> wrote:
> > - The variable is added to allow the driver an easy access
> > to it's own hw->priv when the op is invoked.
> > 
> > - Change wlcore op accordingly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@...com>
> 
> These two patches solve the regression I was seeing with pre-v4.8-rc1
> kernels on HiKey.
> 

Interesting, what was the regression? Was the station pointer there not
valid?

johannes