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mac80211: sequence number micro-optimisation 

There's no need to mask the variable with 0xFFF0
since we ever only use it as a u16 and the lowest
four bits can't ever be non-zero. The compiler
cannot infer the latter, and therefore has to emit
code to do the masking.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Johannes Berg 2009-08-10 16:02:40 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
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commit d0b69609dc
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@ -700,7 +700,6 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_sequence(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
/* for pure STA mode without beacons, we can do it */
hdr->seq_ctrl = cpu_to_le16(tx->sdata->sequence_number);
tx->sdata->sequence_number += 0x10;
tx->sdata->sequence_number &= IEEE80211_SCTL_SEQ;
return TX_CONTINUE;
}