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wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: support stations of non-netdev interfaces
authorMiri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:47:13 +0000 (11:47 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Mon, 2 Mar 2026 08:23:03 +0000 (09:23 +0100)
commit033fe322f5852d5144a85978e880e01b1787fd0d
treeed6c44f2d7df3b0c413d117027d09159fa718ff9
parent137b61fdfc989a66db1831ac05edee613323552f
wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: support stations of non-netdev interfaces

Currently, a station can only be added to a netdev interface,
mainly because there was no need for a station of a non-netdev
interface.

But for NAN, we will have stations that belong to the NL80211_IFTYPE_NAN
interface.

Prepare for adding/changing/deleting a station that belongs to a non-netdev
interface. This doesn't actually allow such stations - this will be done
in a different patch.

Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219114327.65c9cc96f814.Ic02066b88bb8ad6b21e15cbea8d720280008c83b@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
22 files changed:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/uap_event.c
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/event.c
drivers/net/wireless/virtual/virt_wifi.c
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
include/net/cfg80211.h
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/mac80211/sta_info.c
net/wireless/nl80211.c
net/wireless/rdev-ops.h
net/wireless/trace.h
net/wireless/util.c
net/wireless/wext-compat.c