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authorDenis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>2016-08-03 16:58:33 -0500
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-08-11 16:51:41 +0200
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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>
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diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index 7645e97362c0..7758c0fe781a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -1079,6 +1079,8 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT ||
wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) && !wdev->use_4addr)
dev->priv_flags |= IFF_DONT_BRIDGE;
+
+ nl80211_notify_iface(rdev, wdev, NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE);
break;
case NETDEV_GOING_DOWN:
cfg80211_leave(rdev, wdev);