On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 11:33 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> Export this symbol so that wireless drivers can check the running IEEE80211
> API version dynamically.
What's that needed for? Capability checks? Checking user's version to
ensure they have a version with security fixes?
What API bits changed?
Dan
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ---
>
> include/net/ieee80211.h | 2 ++
> net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> 81634e488965fae232027e14a54c998ccb5b0c49
> diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211.h b/include/net/ieee80211.h
> index 83e06aa..ee66681 100644
> --- a/include/net/ieee80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/ieee80211.h
> @@ -1255,6 +1255,8 @@ static inline int ieee80211_is_cck_rate(
> return 0;
> }
>
> +extern const int ieee80211_api_version;
> +
> /* ieee80211.c */
> extern void free_ieee80211(struct net_device *dev);
> extern struct net_device *alloc_ieee80211(int sizeof_priv);
> diff --git a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
> b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
> index 13b1e5f..02e730b 100644
> --- a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
> +++ b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
> @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRV_DESCRIPTION);
> MODULE_AUTHOR(DRV_COPYRIGHT);
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> +const int ieee80211_api_version = IEEE80211_VERSION_API;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_api_version);
> +
> static int ieee80211_networks_allocate(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)
> {
> if (ieee->networks)
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