From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2] staging: r8188eu: Set device type to wlan
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:15:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1382411705-5374-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (raw)
The latest version of NetworkManager does not recognize the device as wireless
without this change.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>a [3.12+]
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c
index da9f0d5..17659bb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c
@@ -707,6 +707,10 @@ int rtw_init_netdev_name(struct net_device *pnetdev, const char *ifname)
return 0;
}
+static const struct device_type wlan_type = {
+ .name = "wlan",
+};
+
struct net_device *rtw_init_netdev(struct adapter *old_padapter)
{
struct adapter *padapter;
@@ -722,6 +726,7 @@ struct net_device *rtw_init_netdev(struct adapter *old_padapter)
if (!pnetdev)
return NULL;
+ pnetdev->dev.type = &wlan_type;
padapter = rtw_netdev_priv(pnetdev);
padapter->pnetdev = pnetdev;
DBG_88E("register rtw_netdev_ops to netdev_ops\n");
--
1.8.4
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