From 896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Kenzior Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:58:33 -0500 Subject: cfg80211: always notify userspace of new wireless netdevs This change alters the semantics of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE events by always sending this event whenever a new net_device object associated with a wdev is registered. Prior to this change, this event was only sent as a result of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE command sent from userspace. This allows userspace to reliably detect new wireless interfaces (e.g. due to hardware hot-plug events, etc). For wdevs created without an associated net_device object (e.g. NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE event is still generated inside the relevant nl80211 command handler. Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/nl80211.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.h') diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.h b/net/wireless/nl80211.h index a63f402b10b7..7e3821d7fcc5 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.h +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.h @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ int nl80211_init(void); void nl80211_exit(void); void nl80211_notify_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, enum nl80211_commands cmd); +void nl80211_notify_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, + struct wireless_dev *wdev, + enum nl80211_commands cmd); void nl80211_send_scan_start(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, struct wireless_dev *wdev); struct sk_buff *nl80211_build_scan_msg(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, -- cgit v1.2.3