[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v4] mac80211: Move reorder-sensitive TX handlers to after TXQ dequeue.

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Thu Sep 1 04:38:22 EDT 2016


Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> writes:

>> > > +static int invoke_tx_handlers(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
>> > > +{
>> > > +	return invoke_tx_handlers_early(tx) ||
>> > > invoke_tx_handlers_late(tx);
>> > > +}
>> > 
>> > Ugh, please, no, don't be tricky where it's not necessary. Now
>> > every
>> > person reading this has to first look up the return type, and then
>> > the
>> > return value, and make sure they understand that success is
>> > actually
>> > the value 0 ... that's way too much to ask.
>> 
>> Noted. Any objections to turning these into bool return types?
>
> They have three possible values ... :)

Ah, no, not the handlers themselves. Meant the invoke_tx_handlers()
function (or all three of them after my patch; hence the plural). To
avoid the "0 means true" confusion you alluded to :)

-Toke


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