On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 14:44 -0500, Joel Cunningham wrote: > Actually, studying further, it looks like when drv->device_ap_sme is > set to 1 (which is the case with my full MAC driver) the monitor > interface is explicitly disabled and we don’t call > nl80211_mgmt_subscibe_ap(). So it appears that cfg80211 APIs are > always used for receiving management frames and poll command/TX > status support doesn’t matter. > > Is my understanding correct? Yes, more or less. However, the management TX/RX APIs might still get used for some higher-level purposes, I think. The monitor interface is something pretty much historic, we should perhaps consider removing support for it - it hasn't been used for about 5 years, since kernel 3.3 I believe. johannes _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
