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| author | Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> | 2016-08-03 16:58:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-08-11 16:51:41 +0200 |
| commit | 896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8 (patch) | |
| tree | aa28f1eb1bbb97da2ef565117e79f8d51087cc56 /net/wireless/nl80211.h | |
| parent | eae4430ee7c5ea1152400cfc070f3746d41fa134 (diff) | |
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 <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
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, |