iwlwifi: make sta lock private & BH lock
Now that the transport has its own locking,
there's no need to have the sta_lock in the
shared data. Also, it can be a BH lock as
it's not used from IRQ handlers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
index 6e5bf0a..dc57522 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
@@ -719,6 +719,12 @@
/*data shared among all the driver's layers */
struct iwl_shared *shrd;
+ /*
+ * protects the station table, if shrd->lock and sta_lock are
+ * needed, shrd->lock must be acquired first
+ */
+ spinlock_t sta_lock;
+
/* ieee device used by generic ieee processing code */
struct ieee80211_hw *hw;
struct ieee80211_channel *ieee_channels;