Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211/wlcore: Add ieee80211_hw variable to get_expected_throughput

[John Stultz]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 14:31 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > - The variable is added to allow the driver an easy access
>> > to it's own hw->priv when the op is invoked.
>> >
>> > - Change wlcore op accordingly.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Altshul <maxim.altshul@xxxxxx>
>>
>> These two patches solve the regression I was seeing with pre-v4.8-rc1
>> kernels on HiKey.
>>
>
> Interesting, what was the regression? Was the station pointer there not
> valid?

Yea, a null pointer deference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/27/712

thanks
-john