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| author | Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> | 2014-11-02 08:44:54 +0300 |
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| committer | Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> | 2014-11-04 00:27:51 +0300 |
| commit | 98a18b6ffc79baa69f4a0d1bae58faf2a8aef4c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 13cb21dc5f8b459341b8068051d3b34f1e8f2a59 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | a736abc1ac09b824387fb75b2aa7887c6e3ed68a (diff) | |
| download | linux-98a18b6ffc79baa69f4a0d1bae58faf2a8aef4c8.tar.xz | |
netdevice: add ieee802154_ptr to net_device
This patch adds an ieee802154_ptr to the net_device structure.
Furthermore the 802.15.4 subsystem will introduce a nl802154 framework
which is similar like the nl80211 framework and a wpan_dev structure.
The wpan_dev structure will hold additional net_device attributes like
address options which are 802.15.4 specific. In the upcoming nl802154
implementation we will introduce a NL802154_FLAG_NEED_WPAN_DEV like
NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV. For this flag an ieee802154_ptr in net_device is
needed. Additional we can access the wpan_dev attributes in upper layers
like IEEE 802.15.4 6LoWPAN easily. Current solution is a complicated
callback interface and getting these values over subif data structure
in mac802154.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 74fd5d37f15a..c9bcf33efb47 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ struct device; struct phy_device; /* 802.11 specific */ struct wireless_dev; +/* 802.15.4 specific */ +struct wpan_dev; void netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(struct net_device *dev, const struct ethtool_ops *ops); @@ -1572,6 +1574,7 @@ struct net_device { struct inet6_dev __rcu *ip6_ptr; void *ax25_ptr; struct wireless_dev *ieee80211_ptr; + struct wpan_dev *ieee802154_ptr; /* * Cache lines mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans()) |