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>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h
index 420d437f9580..c6a5fae634a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ void carl9170_rx(struct ar9170 *ar, void *buf, unsigned int len);
 void carl9170_handle_command_response(struct ar9170 *ar, void *buf, u32 len);
 
 /* TX */
-int carl9170_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb);
+void carl9170_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb);
 void carl9170_tx_janitor(struct work_struct *work);
 void carl9170_tx_process_status(struct ar9170 *ar,
                                 const struct carl9170_rsp *cmd);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
index 6f41e21d3a1c..0ef70b6fc512 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c
@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ err_unlock_rcu:
         return false;
 }
 
-int carl9170_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+void carl9170_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
         struct ar9170 *ar = hw->priv;
         struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
@@ -1373,12 +1373,11 @@ int carl9170_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
         }
 
         carl9170_tx(ar);
-        return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+        return;
 
 err_free:
         ar->tx_dropped++;
         dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
-        return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 void carl9170_tx_scheduler(struct ar9170 *ar)