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cfg80211: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()
authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:13:39 +0000 (11:13 +0100)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:36:17 +0000 (10:36 +0200)
commit0cef6b0d6c70348cb382f48f54f02211fa8ad614
tree6e2f45a9254d9def4beecc02c2e14b2fc78d3be5
parent41f7ba922c087415a51a08e326587f7b0c80b83a
cfg80211: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()

This will expose in /sys whether the ifname of a device is set by
userspace or generated by the kernel. The latter kind (wlanX, etc)
is not deterministic, so userspace needs to rename these devices
to names that are guaranteed to stay the same between reboots. The
former, however should never be renamed, so userspace needs to be
able to reliably tell the difference.

Similar functionality was introduced for the rtnetlink core in
commit f1242853e5da ("net: rtnetlink - make create_link take name_assign_type")

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
[reformat changelog to fit 72 cols]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
17 files changed:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.h
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h
drivers/staging/rtl8723au/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
include/net/cfg80211.h
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/iface.c
net/mac80211/main.c
net/wireless/nl80211.c
net/wireless/rdev-ops.h