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)
commit6bab2e19c5ffd1f21b28c2cabb3801a37b77ae69
tree6e2f45a9254d9def4beecc02c2e14b2fc78d3be5
parent6a8b4adb47aea322e376cd1be62781c50dc1a9b5
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 5517750f058e ("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