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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag

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On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 14:17 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2013-05-28 1:50 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 13:01 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >> An active monitor interface is one that is used for communication (via
> >> injection). It is expected to ACK incoming unicast packets. This is
> >> useful for running various 802.11 testing utilities that associate to an
> >> AP via injection and manage the state in user space.
> > 
> > Applied 1 and 2.
> > 
> > Allowing MAC address duplication seems a bit strange, but I guess it
> > simplifies things for users?
> It is allowed only for non-active monitor interfaces, which previously
> did not use ieee80211_verify_mac and ignores the configured MAC address
> anyway.

Oh, that makes sense, I misread the code then.

johannes

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