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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:38:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369744712.8548.3.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A4A044.3030109@openwrt.org>

On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 14:17 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2013-05-28 1:50 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 13:01 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >> An active monitor interface is one that is used for communication (via
> >> injection). It is expected to ACK incoming unicast packets. This is
> >> useful for running various 802.11 testing utilities that associate to an
> >> AP via injection and manage the state in user space.
> > 
> > Applied 1 and 2.
> > 
> > Allowing MAC address duplication seems a bit strange, but I guess it
> > simplifies things for users?
> It is allowed only for non-active monitor interfaces, which previously
> did not use ieee80211_verify_mac and ignores the configured MAC address
> anyway.

Oh, that makes sense, I misread the code then.

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-28 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-28 11:01 [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mac80211: support active monitor interfaces Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ath9k: advertise support for " Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 11:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag Johannes Berg
2013-05-28 12:17   ` Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 12:38     ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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