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authorDenis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>2016-08-04 00:58:33 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-08-11 17:51:41 +0300
commit896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8 (patch)
treeaa28f1eb1bbb97da2ef565117e79f8d51087cc56 /net/wireless/nl80211.h
parenteae4430ee7c5ea1152400cfc070f3746d41fa134 (diff)
downloadlinux-896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8.tar.xz
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')
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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,