Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2017-06-14

[PATCH 1/3] wireless: wext: remove ndo_do_ioctl fallback

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2017-06-14 11:55:28
Also in: linux-wireless
Subsystem: 802.11 (including cfg80211/nl80211), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

There are no longer any drivers (in the tree proper, I didn't
check all the staging drivers) that take WEXT ioctls through
this API, the only remaining ones that even have ndo_do_ioctl
are using it only for private ioctls.

Therefore, we can remove this call.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted>
---
 net/wireless/wext-core.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 1a4db6790e20..24ba8a99b946 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -957,9 +957,6 @@ static int wireless_process_ioctl(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr,
 		else if (private)
 			return private(dev, iwr, cmd, info, handler);
 	}
-	/* Old driver API : call driver ioctl handler */
-	if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_do_ioctl)
-		return dev->netdev_ops->ndo_do_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);
 	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
 
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