mac802154: monitor device support
Support for monitor device intended to capture all the network activity.
This interface could be used by networks sniffers and is already
supported by WireShark. That's a good test point to check that basic
MAC support works.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c b/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c
index 9f36760..e3edfb0 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/ieee802154_dev.c
@@ -135,8 +135,11 @@
struct net_device *dev;
int err = -ENOMEM;
- /* No devices is currently added */
switch (type) {
+ case IEEE802154_DEV_MONITOR:
+ dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct mac802154_sub_if_data),
+ name, mac802154_monitor_setup);
+ break;
default:
dev = NULL;
err = -EINVAL;