ieee802154: interface type to be added

This stack implementation distinguishes several types of slave
interfaces. Another parameter to 'add_iface_' function is added
to clarify the interface type is going to be registered.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index 3bdc4303c339..eed291626da6 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb,
         const char *devname;
         int rc = -ENOBUFS;
         struct net_device *dev;
+        int type = __IEEE802154_DEV_INVALID;
 
         pr_debug("%s\n", __func__);
 
@@ -221,7 +222,13 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb,
                 goto nla_put_failure;
         }
 
-        dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname);
+        if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]) {
+                type = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]);
+                if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+        }
+
+        dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname, type);
         if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
                 rc = PTR_ERR(dev);
                 goto nla_put_failure;