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 17:21:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452010897.12357.48.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568BED11.50302@beardandsandals.co.uk>
On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 16:19 +0000, Roger James wrote:
>
> Thanks Johannes, that was my conclusion, but I was not sure if that was
> true in all cases. I tried another chipset and got the same results.
It is true in all cases, since it's the generic cfg80211 code not doing
this. It's not even storing the flags, so it's not a trivial patch.
> I
> am trying to debug a problem with an adapter only seeing broadcast and
> multicast packets in monitor mode, and the significance of the setting
> of the otherbss flag in this case. It would be really helpful if iw
> could return the complete state of an interface, but it looks like that
> would require a kernel patch. This seems like a can of worms to me.
It's not trivial, agree, since you'd have to query the underlying
driver (mac80211) for the flags.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 16:21 UTC|newest]
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
2016-01-05 16:19 ` Roger James
2016-01-05 16:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1452010897.12357.48.camel@sipsolutions.net \
--to=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=roger@beardandsandals.co.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).