mac80211: allow creating wiphy devices with suggested name
Support creating wiphy devices with an optional name.
This will be used by hwsim to have better automated control
over virtual radio creation/deletion.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 2b7426a..bb50e8b 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -3063,7 +3063,27 @@
};
/**
- * ieee80211_alloc_hw - Allocate a new hardware device
+ * ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm - Allocate a new hardware device
+ *
+ * This must be called once for each hardware device. The returned pointer
+ * must be used to refer to this device when calling other functions.
+ * mac80211 allocates a private data area for the driver pointed to by
+ * @priv in &struct ieee80211_hw, the size of this area is given as
+ * @priv_data_len.
+ *
+ * @priv_data_len: length of private data
+ * @ops: callbacks for this device
+ * @requested_name: Requested name for this device.
+ * NULL is valid value, and means use the default naming (phy%d)
+ *
+ * Return: A pointer to the new hardware device, or %NULL on error.
+ */
+struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm(size_t priv_data_len,
+ const struct ieee80211_ops *ops,
+ const char *requested_name);
+
+/**
+ * ieee80211_alloc_hw - Allocate a new hardware device
*
* This must be called once for each hardware device. The returned pointer
* must be used to refer to this device when calling other functions.
@@ -3076,8 +3096,12 @@
*
* Return: A pointer to the new hardware device, or %NULL on error.
*/
+static inline
struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len,
- const struct ieee80211_ops *ops);
+ const struct ieee80211_ops *ops)
+{
+ return ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm(priv_data_len, ops, NULL);
+}
/**
* ieee80211_register_hw - Register hardware device