On 2013-06-07 4:04 PM, Jakub Kiciński wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:49:39 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2013-06-07 3:36 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>> From: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@xxxxx> >>> >>> Mac address of passive monitor have to treated >>> the same as address any other interface because >>> type of interface can be changed or monitor can >>> be later put into active mode. >> It can't. There's checks preventing that. I'd prefer to leave that part >> of the code as it is, the MAC address for normal monitor interfaces >> should be ignored completely. > > I must have misread the code regarding active monitors then. > Main motivation behind this patch was the first part though > - user can change type of interface and once ignored address > of monitor now becomes address of AP, sta etc. I'm pretty sure that switching from monitor to something else is also not supported. - Felix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
