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On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 10:44 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:

> I think Monitor operation should be performed on a best effort basis.
> This means monitor_start/stop should be attempted once number of
> non-monitor vdevs changes.
> 
> We should probably introduce a ath10k_recalc_monitor() for that purpose.

Doesn't mac80211 do that for you?

See IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF.

johannes


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