Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/staging/rtl8187se: Don't pass huge structby value

[Jesper Juhl]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:04:36 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:51:40 +0200
> > 
> > struct ieee80211_network is fairly large (more than half a kilobyte),
> > so let's pass a pointer instead of passing the entire structure by
> > value when ieee80211_is_54g() and ieee80211_is_shortslot() need to
> > look at a few members.
> > Also remove parentheses around the values being returned from those
> > two functions - 'return' is not a function.
> 
> Also, is there some reason that they are not "static inline bool"
> functions defined directlt in ieee80211.h?
> 
I agree to the bool return type, I should have done that.

the "static inline" and defined in the header bits I didn't do because I 
was afraid that that was not valid in combination with EXPORT_SYMBOL().

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