iwlagn: introduce struct iwl-shared - known by all layers
authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:10:37 +0000 (23:10 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:25:30 +0000 (15:25 -0400)
This struct will hold pointers to all the layers, so that every layer will find
the pointers it needs when calling another layer.

Note that the drv_data set to struct device is now a pointer to
struct iwl_shared.
This solves of bug that I introduced in

iwlagn: simplify the bus architecture

Bug description:

sysfs gets the the driver data from struct device. Till the aforementioned
patch, dev_get_drvdata would return iwl_priv. After the patch, dev_get_drvdata
return iwl_bus which is buggy since the sysfs handlers rely on this value, and
sysfs handlers need iwl_priv.

Now, dev_get_drvdata return iwl-shared. Since we have pointers to all the
layers in iwl_shared, every layer will be able to get the pointer it needs:
bus layer will gets iwl_bus from the PCI suspend callbacks, and the sysfs
handlers will get the iwl_priv they need.

In order to keep good encapsulation, we need to avoid to dereference iwl_priv
from a different layer. This is why instead of including iwl-dev.h from
iwl-shared.h, I added a forward declaration to iwl_priv. Moreover we keep type
safety while providing encapsulation.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-bus.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h