BACKPORT: mac80211_hwsim: add frame transmission support over virtio

This allows communication with external entities.

It also required fixing up the netlink policy, since NLA_UNSPEC
attributes are no longer accepted.

Signed-off-by: Erel Geron <erelx.geron@intel.com>
[port to backports, inline the ID, use 29 as the ID as requested,
 drop != NULL checks, reduce ifdefs]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305143212.c6e4c87d225b.I7ce60bf143e863dcdf0fb8040aab7168ba549b99@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

(cherry picked from commit 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1)
Bug: 173808904
Signed-off-by: Weilun Du <wdu@google.com>
Change-Id: I6097464f47460c2383e941594c88637446a77dd5
This commit is contained in:
Weilun Du 2020-11-17 23:15:39 -08:00
commit 4271ad6e8a
3 changed files with 331 additions and 18 deletions

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#define VIRTIO_ID_IOMMU 23 /* virtio IOMMU */
#define VIRTIO_ID_FS 26 /* virtio filesystem */
#define VIRTIO_ID_PMEM 27 /* virtio pmem */
#define VIRTIO_ID_MAC80211_HWSIM 29 /* virtio mac80211-hwsim */
#endif /* _LINUX_VIRTIO_IDS_H */