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

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 17:36, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

It seems to me there are no objections regarding the code. It was only
my commit message that was a bit confusing. I'll send V2 with updated
commit message.

-- 
Rafał




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