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Re: [PATCH 1/3] nl80211: add monitor mode scan feature

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On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 12:50 +0100, Markus Theil wrote:
> Back in 2007 "mac80211: don't allow scanning in monitor mode"
> (f27b62d3e7ec) disabled scanning in monitor mode, because hw
> controlled by the zd1211rw driver got confused during this operation.
> 
> Nevertheless, it can be useful to scan in monitor mode, e.g.
> when building a tool which processes scans, channel surveys and
> monitors the channel passively in monitor mode.

Hmm. I'm not really sure that this makes sense.

You're in monitor mode, so you won't get any scan processing as such
(you will not be able to use nl80211 to retrieve the results!), and
there will be a lot of confusion over sending probe requests (the code
now looks like it would in fact attempt to do so ... but how?).

johannes




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