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Allocate a new hardware device
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct ieee80211_hw * <b class="fsfunc">ieee80211_alloc_hw </b>(</code></td><td>size_t <var class="pdparam">priv_data_len</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const struct ieee80211_ops * <var class="pdparam">ops</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3095524"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>priv_data_len</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
length of private data
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>ops</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
callbacks for this device
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</p><p>
This must be called once for each hardware device. The returned pointer
must be used to refer to this device when calling other functions.
mac80211 allocates a private data area for the driver pointed to by
<em class="parameter"><code>priv</code></em> in <span class="structname">struct ieee80211_hw</span>, the size of this area is given as
<em class="parameter"><code>priv_data_len</code></em>.
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