From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "Arend van Spriel" <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
"Franky Lin" <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
"Hante Meuleman" <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
"Chi-Hsien Lin" <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>,
"Wright Feng" <wright.feng@cypress.com>,
"Pieter-Paul Giesberts" <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>,
"Chung-Hsien Hsu" <stanley.hsu@cypress.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com,
"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [V4,1/3] brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 15:07:13 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704150713.89FE3606FC@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180624194437.28766-1-zajec5@gmail.com>
Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
>
> Many/most of firmwares support creating monitor interface but only the
> most recent ones explicitly /announce/ it using a "monitor" entry in the
> list of capabilities.
>
> Check for that entry and store internally info about monitor mode
> support using a new feature flag. Once we sort out all details of
> handling monitor interface it will be used when reporting available
> interfaces to the cfg80211.
>
> Later some fallback detecion method may be added for older firmwares.
> For now just stick to the "monitor" capability which should be 100%
> reliable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
3 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
01f69dfafdbe brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface
e63410ac65e0 brcmfmac: detect firmware support for radiotap monitor frames
a8d7631858af brcmfmac: handle msgbuf packets marked with monitor mode flag
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10484843/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-04 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-24 19:44 [PATCH V4 1/3] brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface Rafał Miłecki
2018-06-24 19:44 ` [PATCH V4 2/3] brcmfmac: detect firmware support for radiotap monitor frames Rafał Miłecki
2018-06-29 7:03 ` Kalle Valo
2018-06-29 7:06 ` Rafał Miłecki
2018-06-24 19:44 ` [PATCH V4 3/3] brcmfmac: handle msgbuf packets marked with monitor mode flag Rafał Miłecki
2018-07-04 15:07 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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