Return-path: Received: from mail-la0-f42.google.com ([209.85.215.42]:41901 "EHLO mail-la0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753513AbaLIWa4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:30:56 -0500 Received: by mail-la0-f42.google.com with SMTP id gd6so1425376lab.15 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:30:55 -0800 (PST) From: Vadim Kochan To: johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, Vadim Kochan Subject: [PATCH v3] wireless: Supporting of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl attribute Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:21:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1418163666-9206-1-git-send-email-vadim4j@gmail.com> (sfid-20141209_233059_981907_431B13F1) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 --- net/wireless/core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index f52a4cd..eb7c088 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" @@ -866,6 +867,10 @@ void cfg80211_stop_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_stop_iface); +static struct rtnl_link_ops wireless_link_ops __read_mostly = { + .kind = "wlan", +}; + static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long state, void *ptr) { @@ -883,6 +888,7 @@ 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: /* -- 2.1.3