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, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wext.c b/net/mac80211/wext.c
index e8e4a6215e89..f2fdd3342195 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wext.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wext.c
@@ -301,8 +301,7 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwmode(struct net_device *dev,
         if (netif_running(dev))
                 return -EBUSY;
 
-        ieee80211_if_reinit(dev);
-        ieee80211_if_set_type(dev, type);
+        ieee80211_if_change_type(sdata, type);
 
         return 0;
 }