Rafał Miłecki wrote: > From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
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 -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10484843/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
