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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-08-07 16:17:38 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-08-14 09:13:43 -0400 |
| commit | f5ea9120be2e5d5c846243416cfdce01d02f5836 (patch) | |
| tree | cade27e47a90dde79a523598b96a2ebb50770d2f /net/wireless/core.h | |
| parent | f401a6f7ede753e56b84025e7d2db0d5ef560ce6 (diff) | |
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nl80211: add generation number to all dumps
In order for userspace to be able to figure out whether
it obtained a consistent snapshot of data or not when
using netlink dumps, we need to have a generation number
in each dump message that indicates whether the list has
changed or not -- its value is arbitrary.
This patch adds such a number to all dumps, this needs
some mac80211 involvement to keep track of a generation
number to start with when adding/removing mesh paths or
stations.
The wiphy and netdev lists can be fully handled within
cfg80211, of course, but generation numbers need to be
stored there as well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/core.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/core.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h index 92e0492b0e4d..639db52eeff7 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.h +++ b/net/wireless/core.h @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct cfg80211_registered_device { /* associate netdev list */ struct mutex devlist_mtx; struct list_head netdev_list; + int devlist_generation; /* BSSes/scanning */ spinlock_t bss_lock; @@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ bool wiphy_idx_valid(int wiphy_idx) extern struct mutex cfg80211_mutex; extern struct list_head cfg80211_rdev_list; +extern int cfg80211_rdev_list_generation; #define assert_cfg80211_lock() WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&cfg80211_mutex)) |