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Subject: Re: [V4,1/3] brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Many/most of firmwares support creating monitor interface but only the
> most recent ones explicitly /announce/ it using a "monitor" entry in the
> list of capabilities.
> 
> Check for that entry and store internally info about monitor mode
> support using a new feature flag. Once we sort out all details of
> handling monitor interface it will be used when reporting available
> interfaces to the cfg80211.
> 
> Later some fallback detecion method may be added for older firmwares.
> For now just stick to the "monitor" capability which should be 100%
> reliable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

3 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

01f69dfafdbe brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface
e63410ac65e0 brcmfmac: detect firmware support for radiotap monitor frames
a8d7631858af brcmfmac: handle msgbuf packets marked with monitor mode flag

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10484843/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches