Re: [2/5] ieee80211: ieee80211_device alignment fix and cleanup

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Comments on the remaining patches in this series:

1) I am not convinced that the subclassing of net_device should be done in this manner. Read drivers/net/wan/hdlc_generic.c and .../pc300_drv.c for examples of how hdlc_device is handled.

Comments and thoughts welcome.


2) Please put all the new, protocol-layer functions ieee80211_type_trans(), ieee80211_change_mtu(), ieee80211_header(), etc. in their own file.


3) Temporary or not, the following construct is simply not necessary. Modify the definition rather than repeating this two-call piece of code in multiple areas:

	ieee80211_priv(netdev_priv(dev));


4) A low-level wireless hardware driver should look like other net drivers, and use the existing driver API. The low level driver should implement its own dev->hard_start_xmit().

 	ieee = netdev_priv(dev);
-	dev->hard_start_xmit = ieee80211_xmit;
-
 	ieee->dev = dev;
+	ieee->priv = ieee80211_priv(ieee);
+	
+	dev->hard_start_xmit = ieee80211_xmit;

Certainly, the driver will make many calls to generic ieee80211_xxx functions to get things done.

I understand this was not your change; you simply moved the dev->hard_start_xmit() assignment down. I just wanted to take this opportunity to make a point.


5) The wireless code in -mm all sourced directly from my netdev-2.6.git tree. I strongly encourage everyone who wants to work on wireless to download git (read http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11) and check out branches 'we18' (wireless ex 18), 'we18-ieee80211' (we18 + ieee80211), and 'we18-ieee80211-wifi' (we18 + ieee80211 + hostAP) of
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git




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