[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "prism54: set netdev type to "wlan"" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Dec 5 11:23:40 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    prism54: set netdev type to "wlan"

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a0dc666b720f684dde293702661b87a801451080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:39:44 -0600
Subject: prism54: set netdev type to "wlan"

commit 8e3ffa471091c560deb6738ed9ab7445b7a5fd04 upstream.

Userspace uses the netdev devtype for stuff like device naming and type
detection.  Be nice and set it.  Remove the pointless #if/#endif around
SET_NETDEV_DEV too.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c
index 5970ff6..d498b02 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_dev.c
@@ -811,6 +811,10 @@ static const struct net_device_ops islpci_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
 };

+static struct device_type wlan_type = {
+	.name	= "wlan",
+};
+
 struct net_device *
 islpci_setup(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
@@ -821,9 +825,8 @@ islpci_setup(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 		return ndev;

 	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, ndev);
-#if defined(SET_NETDEV_DEV)
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, &pdev->dev);
-#endif
+	SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(ndev, &wlan_type);

 	/* setup the structure members */
 	ndev->base_addr = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
--
1.8.3.2





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