nl80211: prepare for non-netdev wireless devs

In order to support a P2P device abstraction and
Bluetooth high-speed AMPs, we need to have a way
to identify virtual interfaces that don't have a
netdev associated.

Do this by adding a NL80211_ATTR_WDEV attribute
to identify a wdev which may or may not also be
a netdev.

To simplify things, use a 64-bit value with the
high 32 bits being the wiphy index for this new
wdev identifier in the nl80211 API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
index db961a59247..e791487ead3 100644
--- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ enum nl80211_commands {
  * @NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME: network interface name
  * @NL80211_ATTR_IFTYPE: type of virtual interface, see &enum nl80211_iftype
  *
+ * @NL80211_ATTR_WDEV: wireless device identifier, used for pseudo-devices
+ *      that don't have a netdev (u64)
+ *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_MAC: MAC address (various uses)
  *
  * @NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA: (temporal) key data; for TKIP this consists of
@@ -1493,6 +1496,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
 
         NL80211_ATTR_BG_SCAN_PERIOD,
 
+        NL80211_ATTR_WDEV,
+
         /* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
 
         __NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,