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| author | alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com> | 2012-05-16 00:50:29 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-05-16 23:17:08 +0400 |
| commit | 0606069d9ef538687957d41ed6387d665af7a643 (patch) | |
| tree | b0e54cbdddc436a4b8fd48db676c0ab2efd55d6f /net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c | |
| parent | 62610ad21870a8cf842d4a48f07c3a964e1d2622 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0606069d9ef538687957d41ed6387d665af7a643.tar.xz | |
mac802154: monitor device support
Support for monitor device intended to capture all the network activity.
This interface could be used by networks sniffers and is already
supported by WireShark. That's a good test point to check that basic
MAC support works.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c b/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c index 9f36760b6c3a..e3edfb0661b0 100644 --- a/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c +++ b/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c @@ -135,8 +135,11 @@ mac802154_add_iface(struct wpan_phy *phy, const char *name, int type) struct net_device *dev; int err = -ENOMEM; - /* No devices is currently added */ switch (type) { + case IEEE802154_DEV_MONITOR: + dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct mac802154_sub_if_data), + name, mac802154_monitor_setup); + break; default: dev = NULL; err = -EINVAL; |