1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>wiphy_new</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The 802.11 subsystems &#8211; for kernel developers"><link rel="up" href="bk01ch01.html" title="Chapter&#160;1.&#160;Device registration"><link rel="prev" href="API-struct-wireless-dev.html" title="struct wireless_dev"><link rel="next" href="API-wiphy-register.html" title="wiphy_register"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">wiphy_new</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-struct-wireless-dev.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter&#160;1.&#160;Device registration</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-wiphy-register.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-wiphy-new"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>wiphy_new &#8212; 
2  create a new wiphy for use with cfg80211
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct wiphy * <b class="fsfunc">wiphy_new </b>(</code></td><td>const struct cfg80211_ops * <var class="pdparam">ops</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int <var class="pdparam">sizeof_priv</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1112258164"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>ops</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     The configuration operations for this device
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>sizeof_priv</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     The size of the private area to allocate
7    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1112260764"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
8   Create a new wiphy and associate the given operations with it.
9   <em class="parameter"><code>sizeof_priv</code></em> bytes are allocated for private use.
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11   A pointer to the new wiphy. This pointer must be
12   assigned to each netdev's ieee80211_ptr for proper operation.
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