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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211

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On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:49:55 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Let's make monitor interfaces 
> > resemble monitoring ethernet a little more by reporting both RXed frames and 
> > TXed frames. *BSD does this too and it makes running ethereal on monitor 
> > interfaces much more useful. 
> 
> We do this right now afaik.

AFAIK we report RXed frames only.

> > TX frame reporting can be done simply in the 
> > ieee80211_tx_status call, allowing the TX status to be reported on real 
> > frames. 
> 
> I don't quite understand this comment. TX status reporting should go via
> nl80211.

I think Michael meant that an elegant way for sending also TXed frames
to monitor interfaces is to do that in ieee80211_tx_status. Makes sense
to me.

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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