From: Roger James <roger@beardandsandals.co.uk>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The mac80211 softmac driver subsystem and handling of monitor interfaces
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:01:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E807A3.4010907@beardandsandals.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458044118.2871.1.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 15/03/16 12:15, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 10:42 +0000, Roger James wrote:
>
>> ath/ath10k ath/ath9k (both ath9k and ath9k_htc) cw1200
>> brcm80211/brcmsmac
>>
>> All the others seem to be doing things with NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR in
>> the vif structure. This seems contradictory.
>>
> You should look into the WANT_MONITOR flag. :)
>
> johannes
> --
>
Hmm...
roger@dragon:~/linux-mainline$ find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep -n
IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF {} \; -print
1851: * @IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF: The driver would like to be
informed of
1928: IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF,
./include/net/mac80211.h
Is that what you meant. Nobody seems to be using it. Even mac80211
itself. Or am I being stupid again :-)
Roger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-15 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-15 10:42 The mac80211 softmac driver subsystem and handling of monitor interfaces Roger James
2016-03-15 12:15 ` Johannes Berg
2016-03-15 13:01 ` Roger James [this message]
2016-03-15 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2016-03-15 16:42 ` Roger James
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2016-03-16 9:53 Roger James
2016-03-16 9:56 ` Johannes Berg
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