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>
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.h b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
index a63f402..7e3821d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.h
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.h
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
void nl80211_exit(void);
void nl80211_notify_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
enum nl80211_commands cmd);
+void nl80211_notify_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
+ struct wireless_dev *wdev,
+ enum nl80211_commands cmd);
void nl80211_send_scan_start(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
struct wireless_dev *wdev);
struct sk_buff *nl80211_build_scan_msg(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,