On 14 November 2016 at 12:08, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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? > > Oh, no, that use case certainly is perfectly valid and there is nothing > to replace it. > > I was referring only to the "cooked monitor" mode that hostapd uses to > get "all frames the kernel didn't handle". > > Sorry I didn't make that clear. Thanks for explaining. It makes sense I guess, we should also simplify initialization path. There is too much guessing on what method should be used. Dropping monitor-based AP support would help with that a lot. -- Rafał _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
