mac80211: revamp beacon configuration

This patch changes mac80211's beacon configuration handling
to never pass skbs to the driver directly but rather always
require the driver to use ieee80211_beacon_get(). Additionally,
it introduces "change flags" on the config_interface() call
to enable drivers to figure out what is changing. Finally, it
removes the beacon_update() driver callback in favour of
having IBSS beacon delivered by ieee80211_beacon_get() as well.

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

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
index a43e9b25169b..217d506527a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@ static struct ieee80211_ops ath5k_hw_ops = {
         .get_tx_stats   = ath5k_get_tx_stats,
         .get_tsf        = ath5k_get_tsf,
         .reset_tsf      = ath5k_reset_tsf,
-        .beacon_update  = ath5k_beacon_update,
 };
 
 /*
@@ -2785,6 +2784,18 @@ ath5k_config_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
                  * a clean way of letting us retrieve this yet. */
                 ath5k_hw_set_associd(ah, ah->ah_bssid, 0);
         }
+
+        if (conf->changed & IEEE80211_IFCC_BEACON &&
+            vif->type == IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_IBSS) {
+                struct sk_buff *beacon = ieee80211_beacon_get(hw, vif);
+                if (!beacon) {
+                        ret = -ENOMEM;
+                        goto unlock;
+                }
+                /* call old handler for now */
+                ath5k_beacon_update(hw, beacon);
+        }
+
         mutex_unlock(&sc->lock);
 
         return ath5k_reset(hw);