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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Eli Cooper <elicooper@gmx.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rt2x00: fix monitor mode regression
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:45:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160118084500.GA3731@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452701232-12619-1-git-send-email-elicooper@gmx.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:07:12AM +0800, Eli Cooper wrote:
> Since commit df1404650ccbfeb76a84f301f22316be0d00a864 monitor mode for rt2x00
> has been made effectively useless because the hardware filter is configured to
> drop packets whose intended recipient is not the device, regardless of the
> presence of monitor mode interfaces.
> 
> This patch fixes this regression by adding explicit monitor mode support, and
> configuring the hardware filter accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cooper <elicooper@gmx.com>
[snip]
>  	unsigned int intf_associated;
>  	unsigned int intf_beaconing;
> +	bool is_monitoring;

Could you change to use rt2x00dev->flags instead of new bool
variable i.e. introduce CONFIG_MONITORING in rt2x00_state_flags ?

> +	if (ieee80211_flags & IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_MONITOR) {
> +		if (conf->flags & IEEE80211_CONF_MONITOR) {
> +			rt2x00_dbg(rt2x00dev, "Monitor mode is enabled\n");

I don't think those debug messages are actually needed.

Thanks
Stanislaw

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13 16:07 [PATCH v2] rt2x00: fix monitor mode regression Eli Cooper
2016-01-13 16:32 ` Helmut Schaa
2016-01-18  8:45 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]

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