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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: do not alter injected seq numbers

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[don't drop CCs, restored]

> Are you really sure the flag is IEEE80211_TX_INJECTED?
> For the current (today, 22 May) wireless-testing, it seems it's been
>  renamed to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED. Also, not tx->flags anymore, but
>  info->flags instead.
> Can you confirm that?

Yeah both of those are correct, due to a recent patch of mine.

> I was going to say something else, but I saw another post by Johannes... Strange
> that hostapd uses injection in monitor mode interfaces, I thought it would be
> only  AP mode interfaces.

No, it uses monitor for a bunch of things, including getting access to
management frames (before a station has associated.)

> And it is also strange that iwlwifi developers wanted to disallow injection in
> monitor mode, with hostapd apparently needing it!

No, not strange either, for one iwlwifi doesn't seem to support AP yet,
and secondly the monitor interface would be secondary so iwlwifi
wouldn't even notice it.

johannes

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