mac80211: dont use interface indices in drivers

This patch gets rid of the if_id stuff where possible in favour of
a new per-virtual-interface structure "struct ieee80211_vif". This
structure is located at the end of the per-interface structure and
contains a variable length driver-use data area.

This has two advantages:
 * removes the need to look up interfaces by if_id, this is better
   for working with network namespaces and performance
 * allows drivers to store and retrieve per-interface data without
   having to allocate own lists/hash tables

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h
index 927d67db3dc2..7ba2223d2247 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ struct ath5k_softc {
         unsigned int            curmode;        /* current phy mode */
         struct ieee80211_channel *curchan;      /* current h/w channel */
 
-        int                     iface_id;       /* add/remove_interface id */
+        struct ieee80211_vif *vif;
 
         struct {
                 u8      rxflags;        /* radiotap rx flags */