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| author |   Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> | 2016-08-03 16:58:33 -0500 |
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| committer |   Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-08-11 16:51:41 +0200 |
| commit | 896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8 (patch) | |
| tree | aa28f1eb1bbb97da2ef565117e79f8d51087cc56 /fs/proc/generic.c | |
| parent | mac80211: remove skb header offset mangling in ieee80211_build_hdr (diff) | |
| download | linux-rng-896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8.tar.xz linux-rng-896ff0635a312022c91e2bef30c80abc27af62e8.zip | |
cfg80211: always notify userspace of new wireless netdevs
This change alters the semantics of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE events
by always sending this event whenever a new net_device object
associated with a wdev is registered. Prior to this change, this event
was only sent as a result of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE command sent
from userspace. This allows userspace to reliably detect new wireless
interfaces (e.g. due to hardware hot-plug events, etc).
For wdevs created without an associated net_device object (e.g.
NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE event is
still generated inside the relevant nl80211 command handler.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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