From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Roger James <roger@beardandsandals.co.uk>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reading the current monitor flags of an interface
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:02:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452009755.12357.44.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5687FA72.9000301@beardandsandals.co.uk> (sfid-20160102_173707_470075_5C473AA9)
On Sat, 2016-01-02 at 16:27 +0000, Roger James wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get at the current monitor flags setting of a wireless
> monitor mode virtual interface. I have tried to do this by hacking
> the
> iw source. However I never see a NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS attribute
> returned in response to the
>
> TOPLEVEL(info, NULL, NL80211_CMD_GET_INTERFACE, 0, CIB_NETDEV,
> handle_interface_info,
> "Show information for this interface.");
>
> command in iw's interface.c code.
>
> Questions.
>
> 1. Am I wasting my time? (e.g. the rt2800usb driver never returns
> this
> info, or there is another easy way of viewing this info, etc)
>
Looks like it's never set in the corresponding kernel code.
johannes
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-02 16:27 Reading the current monitor flags of an interface Roger James
2016-01-05 16:02 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-01-05 16:19 ` Roger James
2016-01-05 16:21 ` Johannes Berg
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