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cfg80211: add extensible feature flag attribute

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With the wiphy::features flag being used up this patch adds a
new field wiphy::ext_features. Considering extensibility this
new field is declared as a byte array. This extensible flag is
exposed to user-space by NL80211_ATTR_EXT_FEATURES.

Cc: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautam (Gautam Kumar) Shukla <gautams@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Gautam Kumar Shukla 2014-12-23 16:55:19 +01:00 • committed by Johannes Berg
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commit d75bb06b61
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@ -1706,6 +1706,11 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
nla_put_flag(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SELF_MANAGED_REG))
goto nla_put_failure;
if (nla_put(msg, NL80211_ATTR_EXT_FEATURES,
sizeof(rdev->wiphy.ext_features),
rdev->wiphy.ext_features))
goto nla_put_failure;
/* done */
state->split_start = 0;
break;