netdev - Re: [PATCH] ieee80211_if_set_type: make check for master dev more explicit

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:26:11 -0400
From:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, johannes@...solutions.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211_if_set_type: make check for master dev more explicit

On Thursday 04 October 2007 14:09, John W. Linville wrote:
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c
> b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c index be7e77f..6607b80 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ void ieee80211_if_set_type(struct net_device *dev, int
> type) * which already has a hard_start_xmit routine assigned
>  	 * which must not be changed.
>  	 */
> -	if (!dev->hard_start_xmit)
> +	if (dev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE80211)
The standard way of checking for the master device is
dev == sdata->local->mdev

wme.c doesn't quite follow this but that code needs to die anyway.

This does look nicer than the other patch.

-Michael Wu

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