linux/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m
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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control.c wimax/i2400m: use -EL3RST to indicate device reset instead of -ERESTARTSYS 2009-06-11 03:30:26 -07:00
debug-levels.h wimax/i2400m: allow control of the base-station idle mode timeout 2009-03-02 03:10:25 -08:00
debugfs.c wimax: fix build issue when debugfs is disabled 2009-01-29 17:18:31 -08:00
driver.c wimax/i2400m: use -EL3RST to indicate device reset instead of -ERESTARTSYS 2009-06-11 03:30:26 -07:00
fw.c wimax/i2400m: don't reset device when bootrom init retries are exceeded 2009-06-11 03:30:25 -07:00
i2400m-sdio.h wimax/i2400m/sdio: Move all the RX code to a unified, IRQ based receive routine 2009-06-11 03:30:25 -07:00
i2400m-usb.h i2400m/USB: header for the USB bus driver 2009-01-07 10:00:21 -08:00
i2400m.h debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
Kconfig i2400m: Makefile and Kconfig 2009-01-07 10:00:22 -08:00
Makefile wimax/i2400m: allow control of the base-station idle mode timeout 2009-03-02 03:10:25 -08:00
netdev.c wireless: convert drivers to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:14:04 -07:00
op-rfkill.c wimax: fix gcc warnings in sh4 when calling BUG() 2009-06-11 11:47:39 -07:00
rx.c wimax/i2400m: rename misleading I2400M_PL_PAD to I2400M_PL_ALIGN 2009-06-11 03:30:20 -07:00
sdio-debug-levels.h i2400m/SDIO: header for the SDIO subdriver 2009-01-07 10:00:22 -08:00
sdio-fw.c wimax/i2400m/sdio: Move all the RX code to a unified, IRQ based receive routine 2009-06-11 03:30:25 -07:00
sdio-rx.c wimax/i2400m/sdio: Move all the RX code to a unified, IRQ based receive routine 2009-06-11 03:30:25 -07:00
sdio-tx.c i2400m/SDIO: TX and RX path backends 2009-01-07 10:00:22 -08:00
sdio.c net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices 2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00
sysfs.c wimax/i2400m: allow control of the base-station idle mode timeout 2009-03-02 03:10:25 -08:00
tx.c wimax/i2400m: fix oops when the TX FIFO fills up due to a missing check 2009-06-11 03:30:22 -07:00
usb-debug-levels.h i2400m/USB: header for the USB bus driver 2009-01-07 10:00:21 -08:00
usb-fw.c i2400m/USB: firmware upload backend 2009-01-07 10:00:21 -08:00
usb-notif.c wimax: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2009-03-02 03:10:26 -08:00
usb-rx.c wimax/i2400m: error paths that need to free an skb should use kfree_skb() 2009-01-19 17:58:08 -08:00
usb-tx.c i2400m/USB: TX and RX path backends 2009-01-07 10:00:21 -08:00
usb.c net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices 2009-09-11 12:54:55 -07:00