linux/net/bluetooth
Marcel Holtmann 384912ed19 net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
The Ethernet framing is used for a lot of devices these days. Most
prominent are WiFi and WiMAX based devices. However for userspace
application it is important to classify these devices correctly and
not only see them as Ethernet devices. The daemons like HAL, DeviceKit
or even NetworkManager with udev support tries to do the classification
in userspace with a lot trickery and extra system calls. This is not
good and actually reaches its limitations. Especially since the kernel
does know the type of the Ethernet device it is pretty stupid.

To solve this problem the underlying device type needs to be set and
then the value will be exported as DEVTYPE via uevents and available
within udev.

  # cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
  DEVTYPE=wlan
  INTERFACE=wlan0
  IFINDEX=5

This is similar to subsystems like USB and SCSI that distinguish
between hosts, devices, disks, partitions etc.

The new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() is a convenience helper to set the actual
device type. All device types are free form, but for convenience the
same strings as used with RFKILL are choosen.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
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bnep net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices 2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
cmtp isdn: rename capi_ctr_reseted() to capi_ctr_down() 2009-06-08 00:45:50 -07:00
hidp Bluetooth: Let HIDP grab the device reference for connections 2009-08-22 14:22:15 -07:00
rfcomm Bluetooth: Fix rejected connection not disconnecting ACL link 2009-08-22 15:05:58 -07:00
af_bluetooth.c net: mark read-only arrays as const 2009-08-05 10:42:58 -07:00
hci_conn.c Bluetooth: Add extra device reference counting for connections 2009-08-22 14:19:26 -07:00
hci_core.c Bluetooth: Convert hdev->req_lock to a mutex 2009-08-22 14:35:02 -07:00
hci_event.c Bluetooth: Add extra device reference counting for connections 2009-08-22 14:19:26 -07:00
hci_sock.c Bluetooth: Enable per-module dynamic debug messages 2008-11-30 12:17:28 +01:00
hci_sysfs.c Bluetooth: Remove useless flush_work() causing lockdep warnings 2009-05-27 09:15:57 +02:00
Kconfig Bluetooth: Add missing selection of CONFIG_CRC16 for L2CAP layer 2009-08-24 16:34:35 -07:00
l2cap.c Bluetooth: Add support for L2CAP 'Send RRorRNR' action 2009-08-26 00:12:20 -07:00
lib.c [NET] BLUETOOTH: Fix whitespace errors. 2007-02-10 23:19:20 -08:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sco.c Bluetooth: Add proper shutdown support to SCO sockets 2009-08-22 14:11:46 -07:00