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Marcel Holtmann 384912ed19 net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices 
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.

  # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
  DEVTYPE=wlan
  INTERFACE=wlan0
  IFINDEX=5

This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
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aes_ccm.c mac80211: aes_ccm.c remove crypto wrapper and extra args 2008-07-08 14:16:02 -04:00
aes_ccm.h mac80211: pass scratch buffer directly, remove additional pointers 2008-07-08 14:16:02 -04:00
aes_cmac.c mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:02 -05:00
aes_cmac.h mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:02 -05:00
agg-rx.c mac80211: Add a timeout for frames in the RX reorder buffer 2009-05-06 15:15:04 -04:00
agg-tx.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-14 16:07:21 -07:00
cfg.c nl80211: add generation number to all dumps 2009-08-14 09:13:43 -04:00
cfg.h
debugfs_key.c mac80211: 802.11w - Use BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:03 -05:00
debugfs_key.h mac80211: 802.11w - Use BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:03 -05:00
debugfs_netdev.c mac80211: New stat counters for multicast and unicast forwarded frames 2009-08-20 11:36:04 -04:00
debugfs_netdev.h mac80211: revamp virtual interface handling 2008-07-14 14:30:07 -04:00
debugfs_sta.c mac80211: improve per-sta debugfs 2009-07-10 14:57:54 -04:00
debugfs_sta.h mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access 2008-03-06 15:30:46 -05:00
debugfs.c mac80211: remove master netdev 2009-07-24 15:05:30 -04:00
debugfs.h
driver-ops.h mac80211: remove tasklet enable/disable 2009-08-28 14:40:34 -04:00
driver-trace.c mac80211: fix sparse warnings/errors 2009-08-04 16:43:25 -04:00
driver-trace.h mac80211: allow configure_filter callback to sleep 2009-08-20 11:35:58 -04:00
event.c cfg80211: use proper allocation flags 2009-07-10 15:01:49 -04:00
ht.c cfg80211: clean up includes 2009-04-22 16:57:17 -04:00
ibss.c mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue 2009-08-04 16:44:14 -04:00
ieee80211_i.h wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:14:04 -07:00
iface.c net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices 2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
Kconfig wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu 2009-09-02 15:29:03 -04:00
key.c mac80211: fix todo lock 2009-07-10 15:01:48 -04:00
key.h nl80211: Add RSC configuration for new keys 2009-05-13 15:44:39 -04:00
led.c mac80211: rename files 2008-04-08 16:44:45 -04:00
led.h mac80211: rename files 2008-04-08 16:44:45 -04:00
main.c mac80211: remove tasklet enable/disable 2009-08-28 14:40:34 -04:00
Makefile cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possible 2009-07-29 15:46:20 -04:00
mesh_hwmp.c mac80211: New stat counters for multicast and unicast forwarded frames 2009-08-20 11:36:04 -04:00
mesh_pathtbl.c mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue. 2009-08-14 09:14:01 -04:00
mesh_plink.c mac80211: Fix invalid length passed to IE parser for PLINK CONFIRM frames 2009-08-14 09:14:06 -04:00
mesh.c mac80211: Update mesh config IE to 11s draft 3.02 2009-08-28 14:40:24 -04:00
mesh.h mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm. 2009-08-20 11:36:02 -04:00
michael.c mac80211: remove ieee80211_get_hdr_info 2008-07-08 14:16:01 -04:00
michael.h mac80211: remove ieee80211_get_hdr_info 2008-07-08 14:16:01 -04:00
mlme.c mac80211: Check pending scan request after having processed mgd work 2009-08-28 14:40:46 -04:00
pm.c mac80211: fix configure_filter invocation after stop 2009-08-28 14:40:25 -04:00
rate.c mac80211: remove master netdev 2009-07-24 15:05:30 -04:00
rate.h mac80211: rate control status only for controlled packets 2009-03-27 20:13:15 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel_debugfs.c net: file_operations should be const 2009-09-02 01:03:53 -07:00
rc80211_minstrel.c mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm. 2009-08-20 11:36:02 -04:00
rc80211_minstrel.h mac80211: Remove unnused throughput field from minstrel_rate. 2009-08-28 14:40:34 -04:00
rc80211_pid_algo.c rc80211_pid_algo.c: remove unused variable declaration 2009-08-20 11:36:03 -04:00
rc80211_pid_debugfs.c net: file_operations should be const 2009-09-02 01:03:53 -07:00
rc80211_pid.h mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API 2008-10-31 19:00:23 -04:00
rx.c mac80211: fix RX skb leaks 2009-08-28 14:40:41 -04:00
scan.c mac80211: fix scan cancel on ifdown 2009-08-28 14:40:45 -04:00
spectmgmt.c mac80211: move channel switch code 2009-05-20 14:46:25 -04:00
sta_info.c nl80211: add generation number to all dumps 2009-08-14 09:13:43 -04:00
sta_info.h mac80211: fix PS-poll response, race 2009-07-27 15:24:19 -04:00
tkip.c mac80211: add driver ops wrappers 2009-05-06 15:14:37 -04:00
tkip.h mac80211: tkip.c consolidate tkip IV writing in helper 2008-06-14 12:18:13 -04:00
tx.c wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:14:04 -07:00
util.c mac80211: fix configure_filter invocation after stop 2009-08-28 14:40:25 -04:00
wep.c cfg80211: rework key operation 2009-07-24 15:05:09 -04:00
wep.h cfg80211: rework key operation 2009-07-24 15:05:09 -04:00
wme.c mac80211: remove master netdev 2009-07-24 15:05:30 -04:00
wme.h mac80211: remove master netdev 2009-07-24 15:05:30 -04:00
wpa.c cfg80211: use proper allocation flags 2009-07-10 15:01:49 -04:00
wpa.h mac80211: 802.11w - Add BIP (AES-128-CMAC) 2009-01-29 16:00:02 -05:00