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[NL80211]: add netlink interface to cfg80211

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Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Johannes Berg
2007-09-20 13:09:35 -04:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 0800f17026
commit 5568296573
10 changed files with 762 additions and 9 deletions
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net/wireless/core.h
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@@ -43,7 +43,39 @@ struct cfg80211_registered_device *wiphy_to_dev(struct wiphy *wiphy)
extern struct mutex cfg80211_drv_mutex;
extern struct list_head cfg80211_drv_list;
/*
* This function returns a pointer to the driver
* that the genl_info item that is passed refers to.
* If successful, it returns non-NULL and also locks
* the driver's mutex!
*
* This means that you need to call cfg80211_put_dev()
* before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_drv_mutex!
*
* This is necessary because we need to lock the global
* mutex to get an item off the list safely, and then
* we lock the drv mutex so it doesn't go away under us.
*
* We don't want to keep cfg80211_drv_mutex locked
* for all the time in order to allow requests on
* other interfaces to go through at the same time.
*
* The result of this can be a PTR_ERR and hence must
* be checked with IS_ERR() for errors.
*/
extern struct cfg80211_registered_device *
cfg80211_get_dev_from_info(struct genl_info *info);
/* identical to cfg80211_get_dev_from_info but only operate on ifindex */
extern struct cfg80211_registered_device *
cfg80211_get_dev_from_ifindex(int ifindex);
extern void cfg80211_put_dev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv);
/* free object */
extern void cfg80211_dev_free(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv);
extern int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv,
char *newname);
#endif /* __NET_WIRELESS_CORE_H */