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From: Roger James <roger@beardandsandals.co.uk>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Reading the current monitor flags of an interface
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:27:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5687FA72.9000301@beardandsandals.co.uk> (raw)

Hi,

I am trying to get at the current monitor flags setting of a wireless 
monitor mode virtual interface. I have tried to do this by hacking the 
iw source. However I never see a NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS attribute 
returned in response to the

TOPLEVEL(info, NULL, NL80211_CMD_GET_INTERFACE, 0, CIB_NETDEV, 
handle_interface_info,
      "Show information for this interface.");

command in iw's interface.c code.

Questions.

1. Am I wasting my time? (e.g. the rt2800usb driver never returns this 
info, or there is another easy way of viewing this info, etc)

2. Am I doing something stupid? (e.g. I need to specify some additional 
flags to the get command.)

3. Has anybody else tried this before?

All help will be gratefully received.

Roger



             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-02 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-02 16:27 Roger James [this message]
2016-01-05 16:02 ` Reading the current monitor flags of an interface Johannes Berg
2016-01-05 16:19   ` Roger James
2016-01-05 16:21     ` Johannes Berg

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