mac80211: make tx() operation return void

The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
index 1476314afa8a..10b4393d7fe0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c
@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ static void at76_mac80211_tx_callback(struct urb *urb)
         ieee80211_wake_queues(priv->hw);
 }
 
-static int at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
         struct at76_priv *priv = hw->priv;
         struct at76_tx_buffer *tx_buffer = priv->bulk_out_buffer;
@@ -1741,7 +1741,8 @@ static int at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
         if (priv->tx_urb->status == -EINPROGRESS) {
                 wiphy_err(priv->hw->wiphy,
                           "%s called while tx urb is pending\n", __func__);
-                return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+                dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+                return;
         }
 
         /* The following code lines are important when the device is going to
@@ -1795,8 +1796,6 @@ static int at76_mac80211_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
                                   priv->tx_urb,
                                   priv->tx_urb->hcpriv, priv->tx_urb->complete);
         }
-
-        return 0;
 }
 
 static int at76_mac80211_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)