mac80211: move interface type to vif structure

Drivers that support mixed AP/STA operation may well need to
know the type of a virtual interface when iterating over them.
The easiest way to support that is to move the interface type
variable into the vif structure.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 24a8ad3f507..8a49c06dfd3 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -535,10 +535,12 @@ enum ieee80211_if_types {
  * Data in this structure is continually present for driver
  * use during the life of a virtual interface.
  *
+ * @type: type of this virtual interface
  * @drv_priv: data area for driver use, will always be aligned to
  *      sizeof(void *).
  */
 struct ieee80211_vif {
+        enum ieee80211_if_types type;
         /* must be last */
         u8 drv_priv[0] __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(void *))));
 };