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mac80211: support creating wiphy w/out creating wlanX

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This will be helpful when using the mac80211_hwsim
wiphys and automated testing.  Let user create the
vifs as needed, and named as expected.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Ben Greear 2014-10-22 12:23:03 -07:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 5cd8926bbf
commit e27513fbd0
2 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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include/net/mac80211.h
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@ -1583,6 +1583,10 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_control {
* a virtual monitor interface when monitor interfaces are the only
* active interfaces.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_NO_AUTO_VIF: The driver would like for no wlanX to
* be created. It is expected user-space will create vifs as
* desired (and thus have them named as desired).
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL: The driver wants to control per-interface
* queue mapping in order to use different queues (not just one per AC)
* for different virtual interfaces. See the doc section on HW queue
@ -1629,7 +1633,8 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS = 1<<12,
IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE = 1<<13,
IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF = 1<<14,
/* free slots */
IEEE80211_HW_NO_AUTO_VIF = 1<<15,
/* free slot */
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD = 1<<17,
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS = 1<<18,
IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR = 1<<19,

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net/mac80211/main.c
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@ -1023,7 +1023,8 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
}
/* add one default STA interface if supported */
if (local->hw.wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)) {
if (local->hw.wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) &&
!(hw->flags & IEEE80211_HW_NO_AUTO_VIF)) {
result = ieee80211_if_add(local, "wlan%d", NULL,
NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, NULL);
if (result)