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Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: support monitor frames with hardware/ucode header

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Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The new FullMAC firmwares for 4366b1/4366c0 were supposed to provide
> monitor frames with radiotap header but it doesn't seem to be the case.
> Testing the latest release resulted in discovering a new format being
> used. It seems (almost?) identical to the one known from ucode used in
> SoftMAC devices which is most likely the same codebase anyway.
> 
> While radiotap support was meant to be announced with the "rtap" fw
> capability string it seems no alternative was added for the hw/ucode
> format. It means each firmware requires a feature mapping quirk.
> 
> As for now only an empty radiotap is being created. Adding support for
> extracting some info (band, channel, signal, etc.) is planned for the
> future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

It's unclear what I should do with this patch, take it?

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10775371/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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