Many defined constants in wifi.h are unused and/or available from
<linux/ieee80211.h>, some with slightly different names. Remove
the constants from ieee80211.h and wifi.h and use the common ones. Rename where
necessary.
Set the pipe for reading or writing in usbctrl_vendorreq only once.
There's no need to set it again for every retry.
This patch is an adaptation of commit 889ed8b5e374 ("staging: rtl8188eu:
set pipe only once") for the new r8188eu driver.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210821164859.4351-10-martin@kaiser.cx
The bRequest value for the vendor specific control requests sent by this
driver is always 0x05. Replace the function parameter with the define from
usb_ops.h.
This patch is an adaptation of commit eeb4661560ff ("staging: rtl8188eu:
ctrl vendor req value is always 0x05") for the new r8188eu driver.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818200041.10870-1-martin@kaiser.cx
Convert all rtw_zvmalloc calls within the driver to use the existing
kernel vzalloc function, which has the same semantics. Also rewrite the
two places where it is mentioned in comments to say vzalloc, and remove
the redundant cast to struct adapter * in ./os_dep/usb_intf.c as vzalloc
returns void *.
The reason for the conversion is that rtw_zvmalloc is just a
preprocessor definition for _rtw_zvmalloc which itself is just an inline
wrapper around vmalloc which then zeroes the memory out. As vzalloc does
the same thing via usage of __GFP_ZERO, this code is redundant and can
subsequently be removed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818234853.208448-5-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Convert the only call to rtw_vmalloc in os_dep/ioctl_linux.c to the
kernel's existing vmalloc function, as rtw_malloc is just a preprocessor
definition for _rtw_vmalloc. The _rtw_vmalloc function is defined inline
and returns a u8, wrapping standard vmalloc. This behaviour is not necessary.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818234853.208448-2-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Looking at the error function as a whole, the error handling is odd
compared to the rest of the kernel, which prefers to set error codes on
goto paths, rather than a global "status" variable which determines the
error code at the end of the function and function calls in the case of
error.
Rearrange the error handling of this function to bring it more inline
with how the kernel does it in most cases, which helps readability.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812204027.338872-4-nathan@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210813201418.4018631-1-nathan@kernel.org
Use the IW_HANDLER macro to declare the handler functions for
wext ioctls. We don't have to skip unused ioctl numbers manually.
The same modification was applied to the deprecated rtl8188eu driver in
commit af249fce390f ("staging: rtl8188eu: use IW_HANDLER to declare wext
handlers").
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210807153636.11712-11-martin@kaiser.cx
These changes are a backport of associated newer changes made in the v5.6.4.2
rtl8812au driver, and correct problems in the previous initialization process
that caused multiple kernel traps on startup.
