On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 15:09 -0600, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 13:22 -0600, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 18:52 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > > > > > > This reverts commit ba1debdfed974f25aa598c283567878657b292ee. > > > > > > Oliver reported that it breaks network-manager, for some reason with > > > this patch NM decides that the device isn't wireless but "generic" > > > (ethernet), sees no carrier (as expected with wifi) and fails to do > > > anything else with it. > > > > Hmm, which NM version? NM uses either DEVTYPE (from 'uevent' in sysfs), > > the phy80211 link in sysfs, or (if enabled) WEXT to figure out whether a > > network interface with arptype=1 is WiFi or not. I can't think of why > > IFLA_INFO_KIND would break that... what are the userspace visible > > effects of the patch before reversion? > > So with the patch, libnl will return 'wlan' from rtnl_link_get_type(). > NetworkManager was relying on the fact that this would return NULL for > WiFi devices and was not falling back to alternate WiFi detection > mechanisms (sysfs, DEVTYPE, etc) when an unknown IFLA_INFO_KIND was > found. > > NM 0.9.10+ have this bug. > > I'll submit a patch upstream for review, which will get backported to > 0.9.10 and later when approved.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743209 Dan > Dan > > > Dan > > > > > Revert this to unbreak userspace. > > > > > > Reported-by: Oliver Hartkopp <[email protected]> > > > Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <[email protected]> > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > net/wireless/core.c | 6 ------ > > > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c > > > index 456e4c38c279..3af0ecf1cc16 100644 > > > --- a/net/wireless/core.c > > > +++ b/net/wireless/core.c > > > @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ > > > #include <linux/sched.h> > > > #include <net/genetlink.h> > > > #include <net/cfg80211.h> > > > -#include <net/rtnetlink.h> > > > #include "nl80211.h" > > > #include "core.h" > > > #include "sysfs.h" > > > @@ -964,10 +963,6 @@ void cfg80211_stop_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct > > > wireless_dev *wdev, > > > } > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_stop_iface); > > > > > > -static const struct rtnl_link_ops wireless_link_ops = { > > > - .kind = "wlan", > > > -}; > > > - > > > static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, > > > unsigned long state, void *ptr) > > > { > > > @@ -986,7 +981,6 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct > > > notifier_block *nb, > > > switch (state) { > > > case NETDEV_POST_INIT: > > > SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(dev, &wiphy_type); > > > - dev->rtnl_link_ops = &wireless_link_ops; > > > break; > > > case NETDEV_REGISTER: > > > /* > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > > the body of a message to [email protected] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
