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wireless: Support of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl attribute 

It allows to identify the wlan kind of device for the user application,
e.g.:

    # ip -d link

    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
        link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 promiscuity 0
    2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
        link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
    3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
        link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
        wlan

Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
[make wireless_link_ops const]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Vadim Kochan 2014-12-10 00:21:06 +02:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent cec3f0ed7d
commit ba1debdfed
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@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <net/genetlink.h>
#include <net/cfg80211.h>
#include <net/rtnetlink.h>
#include "nl80211.h"
#include "core.h"
#include "sysfs.h"
@ -937,6 +938,10 @@ void cfg80211_stop_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_stop_iface);
static const struct rtnl_link_ops wireless_link_ops = {
.kind = "wlan",
};
static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long state, void *ptr)
{
@ -954,6 +959,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
switch (state) {
case NETDEV_POST_INIT:
SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(dev, &wiphy_type);
dev->rtnl_link_ops = &wireless_link_ops;
break;
case NETDEV_REGISTER:
/*