From ba1debdfed974f25aa598c283567878657b292ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Kochan Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:21:06 +0200 Subject: 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: 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: 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: 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 Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann [make wireless_link_ops const] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/wireless/core.c') diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 53dda7728f86..4910758baab1 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #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: /* -- cgit v1.2.3