wireless: Support of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl attribute
authorVadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Tue, 9 Dec 2014 22:21:06 +0000 (00:21 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:48:25 +0000 (13:48 +0100)
commitba1debdfed974f25aa598c283567878657b292ee
tree56e66c4504aeedcda4cefe9d6f3ed7e344544b4b
parentcec3f0ed7de78c02ac4bc719a95915367d68c778
wireless: Support of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl attribute

It allows to identify the wlan kind of device for the user application,
e.g.:

    # ip -d link

    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
        link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 promiscuity 0
    2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
        link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
    3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
        link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
        wlan

Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
[make wireless_link_ops const]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/wireless/core.c