mac80211: remove master netdev

With the internal 'pending' queue system in place, we can simply
put packets there instead of pushing them off to the master dev,
getting rid of the master interface completely.

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/net/mac80211/rate.c b/net/mac80211/rate.c
index 8ac7a984d886..b33efc4fc267 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rate.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rate.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ int ieee80211_init_rate_ctrl_alg(struct ieee80211_local *local,
         struct rate_control_ref *ref, *old;
 
         ASSERT_RTNL();
-        if (local->open_count || netif_running(local->mdev))
+        if (local->open_count)
                 return -EBUSY;
 
         ref = rate_control_alloc(name, local);