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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mac80211: Create ieee80211_if_process_skb from ieee80211_iface_work
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On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 02:34 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 11:06 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > o Use explicit casts to proper types instead of casts to (void *)
> > >   and have the compiler do the implicit cast
> >
> > I see no advantage in this, why? All it does is make the code
> > longer,
> > and if anything changes, you have to change it in multiple places
> > now.
>
> It makes use of the casted to types consistent within net/mac80211
>
> Here are the current uses.  I changed iface .c to match the others.

Well, OK. I'd rather change the others I guess, don't really see the
point.

> $ grep -P --include=*.[ch] "\((\w++\s*){1,2}\s*\*\).*skb->cb" net/mac80211
> net/mac80211/iface.c: ra_tid = (void *)&skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/iface.c: ra_tid = (void *)&skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/iface.c: rx_agg = (void *)&skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/iface.c: rx_agg = (void *)&skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/agg-tx.c: ra_tid = (struct ieee80211_ra_tid *) &skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/agg-tx.c: ra_tid = (struct ieee80211_ra_tid *) &skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/agg-rx.c: rx_agg = (struct ieee80211_rx_agg *) &skb->cb;

It's really just these three that are related to the iface.c ones
anyway.

> net/mac80211/mlme.c: struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status = (void *) skb->cb;
> net/mac80211/mlme.c: rx_status = (struct ieee80211_rx_status *) skb->cb;
>

These should be using IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb) :)

johannes

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