From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>,
Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Cc: Steve deRosier <derosier@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>,
Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iw: add command to register and capture mgmt frames
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:03:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508220186.10607.47.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <844c4931-f513-773b-21db-f8e5455088b9@quantenna.com>
> Maybe we could add an additional nl attribute to
> NL80211_CMD_REGISTER_FRAME command to allow applications to
> advertise
> what is their intention, something like
> NL80211_ATTR_MGMT_LISTENER_TYPE.
> Only allow to register more then one listener if it explicitly
> specifies
> that it will not try to answer (TYPE_LISTEN_ONLY or smth like that).
> This will preserve behavior for existing userspace.
We could, in theory, but I don't like using this API for monitoring
purposes. We really should just come up with more generic and flexible
ways of doing that, and I think the eBPF thing is pretty good there.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-17 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 21:00 [PATCH] iw: add command to register and capture mgmt frames Sergey Matyukevich
2017-10-14 22:15 ` Steve deRosier
2017-10-15 9:51 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-10-15 13:41 ` Julian Calaby
2017-10-16 7:26 ` Johannes Berg
2017-10-16 8:48 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-10-16 9:24 ` Johannes Berg
2017-10-16 9:43 ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-10-16 19:17 ` Igor Mitsyanko
2017-10-17 6:03 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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