netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Invoke TX LED in more code paths

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Message-ID: <1496128708.3327.0.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 09:18:28 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "open list:MAC80211" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Invoke TX LED in more code paths

On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 14:59 -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> ieee80211_tx_status() is only one of the possible ways a driver can
> report a handled packet, some drivers call this for every packet
> while
> others calls it rarely or never.
> 
> In order to invoke the TX LED in the non-status reporting cases this
> patch pushes the call to ieee80211_led_tx() into
> ieee80211_report_used_skb(), which is shared between the various code
> paths.

Applied.

johannes