On 14 November 2016 at 11:02, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Oh, that's something new for me. I still use (...) interface add mon0 type monitor and I can see many howtos saying to do that. What's the new way of getting whole packets with radiotap header? -- Rafał _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
