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On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 10:42 +0000, Roger James wrote:

> ath/ath10k ath/ath9k (both ath9k and ath9k_htc) cw1200
> brcm80211/brcmsmac
> 
> All the others seem to be doing things with NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR in
> the vif structure. This seems contradictory.
> 

You should look into the WANT_MONITOR flag. :)

johannes