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    cfg80211: always notify userspace of new wireless netdevs · 896ff063
    Denis Kenzior authored
    This change alters the semantics of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE events
    by always sending this event whenever a new net_device object
    associated with a wdev is registered.  Prior to this change, this event
    was only sent as a result of NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE command sent
    from userspace.  This allows userspace to reliably detect new wireless
    interfaces (e.g. due to hardware hot-plug events, etc).
    
    For wdevs created without an associated net_device object (e.g.
    NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE), the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE event is
    still generated inside the relevant nl80211 command handler.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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