From 89a54e48b9cbb44aed1bf6cd712e087b96b6ae65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:33:17 +0200 Subject: nl80211: prepare for non-netdev wireless devs In order to support a P2P device abstraction and Bluetooth high-speed AMPs, we need to have a way to identify virtual interfaces that don't have a netdev associated. Do this by adding a NL80211_ATTR_WDEV attribute to identify a wdev which may or may not also be a netdev. To simplify things, use a 64-bit value with the high 32 bits being the wiphy index for this new wdev identifier in the nl80211 API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- include/net/cfg80211.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/cfg80211.h') diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 51f67a9003a9..a14e6a406681 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -2341,17 +2341,25 @@ struct cfg80211_internal_bss; struct cfg80211_cached_keys; /** - * struct wireless_dev - wireless per-netdev state + * struct wireless_dev - wireless device state * - * This structure must be allocated by the driver/stack - * that uses the ieee80211_ptr field in struct net_device - * (this is intentional so it can be allocated along with - * the netdev.) + * For netdevs, this structure must be allocated by the driver + * that uses the ieee80211_ptr field in struct net_device (this + * is intentional so it can be allocated along with the netdev.) + * It need not be registered then as netdev registration will + * be intercepted by cfg80211 to see the new wireless device. + * + * For non-netdev uses, it must also be allocated by the driver + * in response to the cfg80211 callbacks that require it, as + * there's no netdev registration in that case it may not be + * allocated outside of callback operations that return it. * * @wiphy: pointer to hardware description * @iftype: interface type * @list: (private) Used to collect the interfaces - * @netdev: (private) Used to reference back to the netdev + * @netdev: (private) Used to reference back to the netdev, may be %NULL + * @identifier: (private) Identifier used in nl80211 to identify this + * wireless device if it has no netdev * @current_bss: (private) Used by the internal configuration code * @channel: (private) Used by the internal configuration code to track * the user-set AP, monitor and WDS channel @@ -2383,6 +2391,8 @@ struct wireless_dev { struct list_head list; struct net_device *netdev; + u32 identifier; + struct list_head mgmt_registrations; spinlock_t mgmt_registrations_lock; -- cgit v1.2.3