mac80211: revamp virtual interface handling

This patch revamps the virtual interface handling and makes the
code much easier to follow. Fewer functions, better names, less
spaghetti code.

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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
index d20d90eead1f..ee509f1109e2 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -70,16 +70,6 @@ DEBUGFS_READONLY_FILE(rate_ctrl_alg, 100, "%s",
 
 /* statistics stuff */
 
-static inline int rtnl_lock_local(struct ieee80211_local *local)
-{
-        rtnl_lock();
-        if (unlikely(local->reg_state != IEEE80211_DEV_REGISTERED)) {
-                rtnl_unlock();
-                return -ENODEV;
-        }
-        return 0;
-}
-
 #define DEBUGFS_STATS_FILE(name, buflen, fmt, value...)                 \
         DEBUGFS_READONLY_FILE(stats_ ##name, buflen, fmt, ##value)
 
@@ -96,10 +86,7 @@ static ssize_t format_devstat_counter(struct ieee80211_local *local,
         if (!local->ops->get_stats)
                 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-        res = rtnl_lock_local(local);
-        if (res)
-                return res;
-
+        rtnl_lock();
         res = local->ops->get_stats(local_to_hw(local), &stats);
         rtnl_unlock();
         if (!res)