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    [PATCH] hostap update · 0cd545d6
    Dave Hansen authored
    
    
    Create sysfs "device" files for hostap
    
    I was writing some scripts to automatically build kismet source lines,
    and I noticed that hostap devices don't have device files, unlike my
    prism54 and ipw2200 cards:
    
    $ ls -l /sys/class/net/eth0/device
    /sys/class/net/eth0/device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0
    $ ls -l /sys/class/net/wifi0
    ls: /sys/class/net/wifi0/device: No such file or directory
    $ ls -l /sys/class/net/wlan0
    ls: /sys/class/net/wlan0/device: No such file or directory
    
    The following (quite small) patch makes sure that both the wlan and wifi
    net devices have that pointer to the bus device.
    
    This way, I can do things like
    
            for i in /sys/class/net/*; do
                    if ! [ -e $i/device/drive ]; then
                            continue;
                    fi;
                    driver=$(basename $(readlink $i/device/driver))
                    case $driver in
                            hostap*)
                                    echo -- hostap,$i,$i-$driver
                                    break;
                            ipw2?00)
                                    echo -- $driver,$i,$i-$driver
                                    break;
                            prism54)
                                    echo prism54g,$i
                    esac
            done
    
    Which should generate a working set of source lines for kismet no matter
    what order I plug the cards in.
    
    It might also be handy to have a link between the two net devices, but
    that's a patch for another day.
    
    That patch is against 2.6.13-rc1-mm1.
    
    -- Dave
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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