mac80211: move TX station pointer and restructure TX

Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
index 6049d8b82855..4d8dc9ff5a75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -694,7 +694,9 @@ mutex_unlock:
         return r;
 }
 
-static void ath9k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void ath9k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+                     struct ieee80211_tx_control *control,
+                     struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
         struct ath_softc *sc = hw->priv;
         struct ath_common *common = ath9k_hw_common(sc->sc_ah);
@@ -754,6 +756,7 @@ static void ath9k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
         memset(&txctl, 0, sizeof(struct ath_tx_control));
         txctl.txq = sc->tx.txq_map[skb_get_queue_mapping(skb)];
+        txctl.sta = control->sta;
 
         ath_dbg(common, XMIT, "transmitting packet, skb: %p\n", skb);