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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:21 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:21 -0700
commitbbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (patch)
tree216fdc1cbef450ca688135c5b8969169482d9a48 /net/wimax/op-msg.c
parent3e48e656903e9fd8bc805c6a2c4264d7808d315b (diff)
parent657a77fa7284d8ae28dfa48f1dc5d919bf5b2843 (diff)
Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-next
Conflicts: crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h drivers/dma/ioat/pci.c drivers/md/raid5.c
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wimax/op-msg.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wimax/op-msg.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/wimax/op-msg.c b/net/wimax/op-msg.c
index 9ad4d893a566..d631a17186bc 100644
--- a/net/wimax/op-msg.c
+++ b/net/wimax/op-msg.c
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@
* Don't use skb_push()/skb_pull()/skb_reserve() on the skb, as
* wimax_msg_send() depends on skb->data being placed at the
* beginning of the user message.
+ *
+ * Unlike other WiMAX stack calls, this call can be used way early,
+ * even before wimax_dev_add() is called, as long as the
+ * wimax_dev->net_dev pointer is set to point to a proper
+ * net_dev. This is so that drivers can use it early in case they need
+ * to send stuff around or communicate with user space.
*/
struct sk_buff *wimax_msg_alloc(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev,
const char *pipe_name,
@@ -115,7 +121,7 @@ struct sk_buff *wimax_msg_alloc(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev,
gfp_t gfp_flags)
{
int result;
- struct device *dev = wimax_dev->net_dev->dev.parent;
+ struct device *dev = wimax_dev_to_dev(wimax_dev);
size_t msg_size;
void *genl_msg;
struct sk_buff *skb;
@@ -161,7 +167,6 @@ error_genlmsg_put:
error_new:
nlmsg_free(skb);
return ERR_PTR(result);
-
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wimax_msg_alloc);
@@ -256,10 +261,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wimax_msg_len);
* Don't use skb_push()/skb_pull()/skb_reserve() on the skb, as
* wimax_msg_send() depends on skb->data being placed at the
* beginning of the user message.
+ *
+ * Unlike other WiMAX stack calls, this call can be used way early,
+ * even before wimax_dev_add() is called, as long as the
+ * wimax_dev->net_dev pointer is set to point to a proper
+ * net_dev. This is so that drivers can use it early in case they need
+ * to send stuff around or communicate with user space.
*/
int wimax_msg_send(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- struct device *dev = wimax_dev->net_dev->dev.parent;
+ struct device *dev = wimax_dev_to_dev(wimax_dev);
void *msg = skb->data;
size_t size = skb->len;
might_sleep();