From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:42085 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751469AbaILKYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2014 06:24:00 -0400 Message-ID: <5412C9BD.8010102@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140912_122405_235825_041F4AE1) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:23:57 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Qiang He , brcm80211 development , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: full mac driver supporting monitor mode References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/12/14 01:47, Qiang He wrote: > Hi Arend, > I get information from > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 that monitor mode > for full mac driver will added in the future. > > > /"To be done for fullmac driver > > Add support for > > debugfs (for accessing counters and other diagnostic info) > monitor mode > Add support for more chips."/ > > Does this have a schedule or is there any information about monitor mode > before released? Main part of the work is in firmware. I did some investigation on this a while ago and started on firmware changes for it. However, that work went in the drawer, but there seems to be other picking up the task. I do not have enough info to give a timeline here. Regards, Arend