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wext: Send name on events

PATCH Applied jamal 2 participants 2 messages Aug 7, 2008 – Aug 13, 2008

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PATCH 1/1 wext: Send name on events

iproute2 doesnt like it, so i was getting irritated by this on my laptop.

cheers,
jamal

wext: Send name on events

In the minimal the wireless extensions oughta send at least the name in addition to the ifindex.

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commit 8dd4c21ea0029bb6a9c838254460f9b1ca677531
tree ce70cdebe4dac4ba2543d1bb6d1e507aa2fd5da7
parent 82ca26fa474171326de9851a2f547c490f8e7276
author Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:15:22 -0400 committer Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:15:22 -0400

 net/wireless/wext.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
net/wireless/wext.c +1 -0
index df5b388..d98ffb7 100644
@@ -1277,6 +1277,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	r->ifi_flags = dev_get_flags(dev);
 	r->ifi_change = 0;	/* Wireless changes don't affect those flags */
 
+	NLA_PUT_STRING(skb, IFLA_IFNAME, dev->name);
 	/* Add the wireless events in the netlink packet */
 	NLA_PUT(skb, IFLA_WIRELESS, event_len, event);
 
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From: jamal <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:25:15 -0400

Quoted 2 lines

iproute2 doesnt like it, so i was getting irritated by this on my laptop.

Applied, thanks Jamal.