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| author |   Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2010-12-03 09:20:42 +0100 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-12-06 16:01:28 -0500 |
| commit | f9e10ce4cf86945eb5efcab31284c971877ed012 (patch) | |
| tree | a56ec8ed84019901bf92aa969e366afb8b8ce36b /net/mac80211 | |
| parent | mac80211: move mesh filter adjusting (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-f9e10ce4cf86945eb5efcab31284c971877ed012.tar.xz linux-dev-f9e10ce4cf86945eb5efcab31284c971877ed012.zip | |
cfg80211: require add_virtual_intf to return new dev
cfg80211 used to do all its bookkeeping in
the notifier, but some new stuff will have
to use local variables so make the callback
return the netdev pointer.
Tested-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/cfg.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index ce6936890c26..d34c7c3dd762 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ #include "rate.h" #include "mesh.h" -static int ieee80211_add_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, char *name, - enum nl80211_iftype type, u32 *flags, - struct vif_params *params) +static struct net_device *ieee80211_add_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, char *name, + enum nl80211_iftype type, + u32 *flags, + struct vif_params *params) { struct ieee80211_local *local = wiphy_priv(wiphy); struct net_device *dev; @@ -29,12 +30,15 @@ static int ieee80211_add_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, char *name, int err; err = ieee80211_if_add(local, name, &dev, type, params); - if (err || type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR || !flags) - return err; + if (err) + return ERR_PTR(err); - sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev); - sdata->u.mntr_flags = *flags; - return 0; + if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR && flags) { + sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev); + sdata->u.mntr_flags = *flags; + } + + return dev; } static int ieee80211_del_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev) |