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| author | Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> | 2006-02-22 15:10:56 -0800 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2006-03-23 07:12:57 -0500 |
| commit | 711e2c33ac9221a419a9e28d05dd78a6a9c5fd4d (patch) | |
| tree | 2d04ff5de8a0d933d3d123a52a6e4285f84e9025 /include/net | |
| parent | 9a107aa24a1dbc05d58a4fdd2c4d2861f8bd5ae6 (diff) | |
[PATCH] WE-20 for kernel 2.6.16
This is version 20 of the Wireless Extensions. This is the
completion of the RtNetlink work I started early 2004, it enables the
full Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink.
Few comments on the patch :
o totally driver transparent, no change in drivers needed.
o iwevent were already RtNetlink based since they were created
(around 2.5.7). This adds all the regular SET and GET requests over
RtNetlink, using the exact same mechanism and data format as iwevents.
o This is a Kconfig option, as currently most people have no
need for it. Surprisingly, patch is actually small and well
encapsulated.
o Tested on SMP, attention as been paid to make it 64 bits clean.
o Code do probably too many checks and could be further
optimised, but better safe than sorry.
o RtNetlink based version of the Wireless Tools available on
my web page for people inclined to try out this stuff.
I would also like to thank Alexey Kuznetsov for his helpful
suggestions to make this patch better.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/iw_handler.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/iw_handler.h b/include/net/iw_handler.h index a2c5e0b8842..10559e937d2 100644 --- a/include/net/iw_handler.h +++ b/include/net/iw_handler.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * Version : 7 18.3.05 * * Authors : Jean Tourrilhes - HPL - <jt@hpl.hp.com> - * Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved. + * Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Jean Tourrilhes, All Rights Reserved. */ #ifndef _IW_HANDLER_H @@ -436,6 +436,16 @@ extern int dev_get_wireless_info(char * buffer, char **start, off_t offset, /* Handle IOCTLs, called in net/core/dev.c */ extern int wireless_process_ioctl(struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd); +/* Handle RtNetlink requests, called in net/core/rtnetlink.c */ +extern int wireless_rtnetlink_set(struct net_device * dev, + char * data, + int len); +extern int wireless_rtnetlink_get(struct net_device * dev, + char * data, + int len, + char ** p_buf, + int * p_len); + /* Second : functions that may be called by driver modules */ /* Send a single event to user space */ |