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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: No echo TX pkt to Monitor interfaces for injection

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:38 +0100, warmcat wrote:
> 
>> This patch adds a new attribute to ieee80211_tx_control's flags field,
>> IEEE80211_TXCTL_NO_SOFT_MONITOR_ECHO, which is set for injected
>> packets.  The code to add a new radiotap header and echo the packet
>> down monitor mode interfaces is now conditional on this attribute not
>> being set.
> 
> Regardless of whether my approach (just posted) will be accepted, this
> patch cannot go in: it stops injected packets from showing up on all
> monitor interfaces but the one they were injected into. If my
> IFF_NO_MIRROR approach is rejected then we'll have to make this a bit
> more elaborate by storing the injection device ifindex in the info
> instead of just a flag.

Yep, fair enough.

-Andy
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