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-rw-r--r--net/wireless/Kconfig3
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext.c1
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index ab015c62d561..833b024f8f66 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -39,4 +39,5 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information
is available via the ioctls as well.
- Say Y if you have programs using it (we don't know of any).
+ Say Y if you have programs using it, like old versions of
+ hal.
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext.c b/net/wireless/wext.c
index df5b3886c36b..d98ffb75119a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext.c
@@ -1277,6 +1277,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
r->ifi_flags = dev_get_flags(dev);
r->ifi_change = 0; /* Wireless changes don't affect those flags */
+ NLA_PUT_STRING(skb, IFLA_IFNAME, dev->name);
/* Add the wireless events in the netlink packet */
NLA_PUT(skb, IFLA_WIRELESS, event_len, event);