Re: [PATCH V3] wfx: use container_of() to get vif

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:12:18AM -0400, Jaehee Park wrote:
> Currently, upon virtual interface creation, wfx_add_interface() stores
> a reference to the corresponding struct ieee80211_vif in private data,
> for later usage. This is not needed when using the container_of
> construct. This construct already has all the info it needs to retrieve
> the reference to the corresponding struct from the offset that is
> already available, inherent in container_of(), between its type and
> member inputs (struct ieee80211_vif and drv_priv, respectively).
> Remove vif (which was previously storing the reference to the struct
> ieee80211_vif) from the struct wfx_vif, define a macro
> wvif_to_vif(wvif) for container_of(), and replace all wvif->vif with
> the newly defined container_of construct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Made edits to the commit message.
> - Shortened the macro name from wvif_to_vif to to_vif.
> - For functions that had more than one instance of vif, defined one 
> reference vif at the beginning of the function and used that instead.
> - Broke the if-statements that ran long into two lines.
> (There are 3 lines that exceed 80 by less than 4 characters. Two of 
> those lines of code could be shorted but it involved defining two more 
> variables, and could potentially make the code less readable.)
> 
> Note: I will mail this patch to the wireless-next tree after testing.
> 
> 
>  drivers/staging/wfx/wfx.h     |  2 +-

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