From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Disallow changing chan type on monitor when CHAN_MODE_FIXED
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:08:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339499291.4531.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339499167-26225-1-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> (sfid-20120612_130639_458885_983B325C)
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 13:06 +0200, Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> If you add a monitor interface in paralell to a normal interface
> mac80211 will let you to change the channel type on the monitor
> interface even if you are connected. Add an explicit check to
> disallow this.
Is this against 3.5, and is it really needed there? It's a corner case
to start with.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-12 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-12 11:06 [PATCH] mac80211: Disallow changing chan type on monitor when CHAN_MODE_FIXED Pontus Fuchs
2012-06-12 11:08 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-06-12 11:20 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-06-12 11:33 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-12 12:15 ` Pontus Fuchs
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