[PATCH 1/2] ieee802154: register a device type for the wpan netdev
From: Adriano Cordova <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-05 21:20:15
Subsystem:
ieee 802.15.4 subsystem, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Aring, Stefan Schmidt, Miquel Raynal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The cfg802154 netdev notifier never sets a device type, so wpan interfaces lack a sysfs "type". Mirror cfg80211 by calling SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() in a NETDEV_POST_INIT case with a new wpan_dev_type. Signed-off-by: Adriano Cordova <redacted> --- net/ieee802154/core.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/core.c b/net/ieee802154/core.c
index c0b8712018a1..c6213412d291 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/core.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/core.c@@ -272,6 +272,10 @@ void cfg802154_dev_free(struct cfg802154_registered_device *rdev) kfree(rdev); } +static const struct device_type wpan_dev_type = { + .name = "wpan", +}; + static void cfg802154_update_iface_num(struct cfg802154_registered_device *rdev, int iftype, int num)
@@ -296,7 +300,9 @@ static int cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, /* TODO WARN_ON unspec type */ switch (state) { - /* TODO NETDEV_DEVTYPE */ + case NETDEV_POST_INIT: + SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE(dev, &wpan_dev_type); + break; case NETDEV_REGISTER: dev->netns_immutable = true; wpan_dev->identifier = ++rdev->wpan_dev_id;
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