mac80211: allow mac80211 drivers to get to struct ieee80211_hw from wiphy

If a driver is given a wiphy and it wants to get to its private
mac80211 driver area it can use wiphy_to_ieee80211_hw() to get first
to its ieee80211_hw and then access the private structure via hw->priv. The
wiphy_priv() is already being used internally by mac80211 and drivers
should not use this. This can be helpful in a drivers reg_notifier().

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 35643c55827a..c1e8261e899e 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -990,6 +990,19 @@ struct ieee80211_hw {
 };
 
 /**
+ * wiphy_to_ieee80211_hw - return a mac80211 driver hw struct from a wiphy
+ *
+ * @wiphy: the &struct wiphy which we want to query
+ *
+ * mac80211 drivers can use this to get to their respective
+ * &struct ieee80211_hw. Drivers wishing to get to their own private
+ * structure can then access it via hw->priv. Note that mac802111 drivers should
+ * not use wiphy_priv() to try to get their private driver structure as this
+ * is already used internally by mac80211.
+ */
+struct ieee80211_hw *wiphy_to_ieee80211_hw(struct wiphy *wiphy);
+
+/**
  * SET_IEEE80211_DEV - set device for 802.11 hardware
  *
  * @hw: the &struct ieee80211_hw to set the device for