Do you have any example of devices where control or otherbss would be useful? Would both be for FullMAC devices? Thanks, Thomas On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 16:22 -0700, Thomas d'Otreppe wrote: >> I've been looking through the different flags for monitor mode in iw. >> Most of them are rather obvious (and well explained) but what is >> exactly 'cooked mode'? >> >> I looked up in Google and in the linux-wireless wiki (nothing in >> there) and I only found explanations in 2 patches (most likely still >> in the source code) which are still vague: >> - A monitor interface in "cooked" mode will see all frames that >> mac80211 has not used internally >> - report frames after processing. Overrides all other flags. >> >> Thinking about what the first one says, it doesn't seem any different >> than just fcsfail. > > No, that's the wrong idea. "cook" means that e.g. auth frames that > mac80211 didn't actually look at will be sent there. > > Anyway, ignore cooked mode. It's only for ancient hostapd versions. > >> I don't even see when control or otherbss should be needed since >> 'none' is already providing them. > > Those are hw-dependent. > > johannes
