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Commit e27513fb authored by Ben Greear's avatar Ben Greear Committed by Johannes Berg
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mac80211: support creating wiphy w/out creating wlanX 



This will be helpful when using the mac80211_hwsim
wiphys and automated testing.  Let user create the
vifs as needed, and named as expected.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 5cd8926b

include/net/mac80211.h

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@@ -1583,6 +1583,10 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_control { 
 *	a virtual monitor interface when monitor interfaces are the only

 *	active interfaces.

 *

 * @IEEE80211_HW_NO_AUTO_VIF: The driver would like for no wlanX to

 *	be created.  It is expected user-space will create vifs as

 *	desired (and thus have them named as desired).

 *

 * @IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL: The driver wants to control per-interface

 *	queue mapping in order to use different queues (not just one per AC)

 *	for different virtual interfaces. See the doc section on HW queue
@@ -1629,7 +1633,8 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { 
	IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS		= 1<<12,

	IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE			= 1<<13,

	IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF			= 1<<14,

	/* free slots */

	IEEE80211_HW_NO_AUTO_VIF			= 1<<15,

	/* free slot */

	IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD			= 1<<17,

	IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS		= 1<<18,

	IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR			= 1<<19,

net/mac80211/main.c

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@@ -1023,7 +1023,8 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) 
	}



	/* add one default STA interface if supported */

	if (local->hw.wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)) {

	if (local->hw.wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) &&

	    !(hw->flags & IEEE80211_HW_NO_AUTO_VIF)) {

		result = ieee80211_if_add(local, "wlan%d", NULL,

					  NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, NULL);

		if (result)