Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw-mac80211: debug output for mac80211 ops

[Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 23:12:49 Jiri Benc wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:25:21 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>>> The "soft" one is a faked up repeating of incoming (and outgoing!
>>> twice!) packets
>> You mean you see each outgoing packet twice on soft monitor interface? That
>> would be a bug.
>>
>>> It really would be much better if the device
>>> is kicked to hardware promisc if ANY virtual interface is in Monitor
>>> mode, therefore the results are consistent regardless of the number of
>>> virtual interfaces that happen to be around.
>> Of course. If the hardware supports that.
> 
> The device should _not_ be kicked to promisc, if we have a monitor
> interface. The promisc bit is a completely seperate setting
> and must be handled seperate from the monitor stuff.
> Userspace does take care of setting the promisc bit, if it's
> required.
> We recently fixed this bug in bcm43xx.

Well that's fine... tcpdump for example does IFF_PROMISC while it runs
so nobody who doesn't care will notice the difference, but I guess you
get the power saving while IFF_PROMISC is off and the Monitor mode
interface is up.

But anyone who tcpdumps on a Monitor mode interface still always sees
the whole picture, not the synthesized one.  Sounds like a good general
way to me.

-Andy