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, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
index b85debb4f7b1..80db5cabc9b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static irqreturn_t rtl8180_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
         return IRQ_HANDLED;
 }
 
-static int rtl8180_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void rtl8180_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
         struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
         struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
@@ -321,8 +321,6 @@ static int rtl8180_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 
         rtl818x_iowrite8(priv, &priv->map->TX_DMA_POLLING, (1 << (prio + 4)));
-
-        return 0;
 }
 
 void rtl8180_set_anaparam(struct rtl8180_priv *priv, u32 anaparam)
@@ -687,7 +685,6 @@ static void rtl8180_beacon_work(struct work_struct *work)
         struct ieee80211_hw *dev = vif_priv->dev;
         struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt;
         struct sk_buff *skb;
-        int err = 0;
 
         /* don't overflow the tx ring */
         if (ieee80211_queue_stopped(dev, 0))
@@ -708,8 +705,7 @@ static void rtl8180_beacon_work(struct work_struct *work)
         /* TODO: use actual beacon queue */
         skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, 0);
 
-        err = rtl8180_tx(dev, skb);
-        WARN_ON(err);
+        rtl8180_tx(dev, skb);
 
 resched:
         /*