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>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
index bdd629d..c83bdcc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
@@ -104,9 +104,6 @@ static int wl_request_fw(struct wl_info *wl, struct pci_dev *pdev);
 static void wl_release_fw(struct wl_info *wl);
 
 /* local prototypes */
-static int wl_start(struct sk_buff *skb, struct wl_info *wl);
-static int wl_start_int(struct wl_info *wl, struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
-			struct sk_buff *skb);
 static void wl_dpc(unsigned long data);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Broadcom Corporation");
@@ -135,7 +132,6 @@ module_param(phymsglevel, int, 0);
 
 #define HW_TO_WL(hw)	 (hw->priv)
 #define WL_TO_HW(wl)	  (wl->pub->ieee_hw)
-static int wl_ops_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb);
 static int wl_ops_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 static void wl_ops_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
 static int wl_ops_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
@@ -173,20 +169,18 @@ static int wl_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
 			   enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action action,
 			   struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u16 tid, u16 *ssn);
 
-static int wl_ops_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void wl_ops_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	int status;
 	struct wl_info *wl = hw->priv;
 	WL_LOCK(wl);
 	if (!wl->pub->up) {
 		WL_ERROR("ops->tx called while down\n");
-		status = -ENETDOWN;
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		goto done;
 	}
-	status = wl_start(skb, wl);
+	wlc_sendpkt_mac80211(wl->wlc, skb, hw);
  done:
 	WL_UNLOCK(wl);
-	return status;
 }
 
 static int wl_ops_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
@@ -1316,22 +1310,6 @@ void wl_free(struct wl_info *wl)
 	osl_detach(osh);
 }
 
-/* transmit a packet */
-static int BCMFASTPATH wl_start(struct sk_buff *skb, struct wl_info *wl)
-{
-	if (!wl)
-		return -ENETDOWN;
-
-	return wl_start_int(wl, WL_TO_HW(wl), skb);
-}
-
-static int BCMFASTPATH
-wl_start_int(struct wl_info *wl, struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
-{
-	wlc_sendpkt_mac80211(wl->wlc, skb, hw);
-	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
-}
-
 void wl_txflowcontrol(struct wl_info *wl, struct wl_if *wlif, bool state,
 		      int prio)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/staging/winbond/wbusb.c b/drivers/staging/winbond/wbusb.c
index 2163d60..3724e1e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/winbond/wbusb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/winbond/wbusb.c
@@ -118,13 +118,14 @@ static void wbsoft_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *dev,
 	*total_flags = new_flags;
 }
 
-static int wbsoft_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void wbsoft_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct wbsoft_priv *priv = dev->priv;
 
 	if (priv->sMlmeFrame.IsInUsed != PACKET_FREE_TO_USE) {
 		priv->sMlmeFrame.wNumTxMMPDUDiscarded++;
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		return;
 	}
 
 	priv->sMlmeFrame.IsInUsed = PACKET_COME_FROM_MLME;
@@ -140,8 +141,6 @@ static int wbsoft_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	 */
 
 	Mds_Tx(priv);
-
-	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 static int wbsoft_start(struct ieee80211_hw *dev)