On 07/16/2014 06:21 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
ath10k doesn't apply any extra rx filters so there's no need to start monitor vdev for promiscuous mode. This fixes crashes with 4addr station interface bridging and some very rare crashes of AP interfaces with bridging as well.
Ahh, I was just working on some related hack-arounds to make sure I left a vdev slot open for the monitor interface in case some poor person started a sniffer on an interface and made it go promisc... With this patch, I can be sure monitor interfaces will not be automatically created without explicit user request? Any idea if it will be a problem to apply this to what is effectively a 3.15 kernel? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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
