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| author | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2015-03-18 13:13:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2015-03-30 11:36:17 +0300 |
| commit | 6bab2e19c5ffd1f21b28c2cabb3801a37b77ae69 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e2f45a9254d9def4beecc02c2e14b2fc78d3be5 /drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | |
| parent | 6a8b4adb47aea322e376cd1be62781c50dc1a9b5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6bab2e19c5ffd1f21b28c2cabb3801a37b77ae69.tar.xz | |
cfg80211: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()
This will expose in /sys whether the ifname of a device is set by
userspace or generated by the kernel. The latter kind (wlanX, etc)
is not deterministic, so userspace needs to rename these devices
to names that are guaranteed to stay the same between reboots. The
former, however should never be renamed, so userspace needs to be
able to reliably tell the difference.
Similar functionality was introduced for the rtnetlink core in
commit 5517750f058e ("net: rtnetlink - make create_link take name_assign_type")
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
[reformat changelog to fit 72 cols]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index a47eb55bb6da..2d489bfaea08 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -2399,10 +2399,11 @@ mwifiex_setup_ht_caps(struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap *ht_info, #define MWIFIEX_MAX_WQ_LEN 30 /* - * create a new virtual interface with the given name + * create a new virtual interface with the given name and name assign type */ struct wireless_dev *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, const char *name, + unsigned char name_assign_type, enum nl80211_iftype type, u32 *flags, struct vif_params *params) @@ -2523,7 +2524,7 @@ struct wireless_dev *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, } dev = alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof(struct mwifiex_private *), name, - NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, ether_setup, + name_assign_type, ether_setup, IEEE80211_NUM_ACS, 1); if (!dev) { wiphy_err(wiphy, "no memory available for netdevice\n"); |