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 <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2012-06-15 14:33:17 +02:00
parent f72b85b8eb
commit 89a54e48b9
7 changed files with 144 additions and 47 deletions

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@@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
* @NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME: network interface name
* @NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE: type of virtual interface, see &enum nl80211_iftype
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_WDEV: wireless device identifier, used for pseudo-devices
* that don't have a netdev (u64)
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_MAC: MAC address (various uses)
*
* @NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA: (temporal) key data; for TKIP this consists of
@@ -1493,6 +1496,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD,
NL80211_ATTR_WDEV,
/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,