On 10/05/22 01:14, Johannes Berg wrote: > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe > > On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 13:49 +0000, Ajay.Kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> As I understand, in WILC "ieee80211_ptr" is used for the station/AP >> interface but not to configure the monitor interface which gets >> additionally added in AP mode. In AP mode, for an interface( wlan0 ), an >> additional monitor interface( mon.wlan0 ) gets created. A netdevice is >> register for monitor interface(mon.wlan0) to transmit/receive frames >> from/to hostapd. That interface doesn't explicitly set up >> 'ieee80211_ptr' because the original interface(wlan0) uses it, so using >> "cfg80211_register/unregister" API's for mon.wlan0 interfaces fails. > Btw, this probably should just be removed in favour of using the nl80211 > based APIs for hostapd ... > > But I think as a quick bugfix goes this is fine, but it'd be better to > remove this and either allow hostapd to create the interface with the > proper ieee80211_ptr, or to just use the nl80211-based TX/RX. Thanks Johannes. Yes, this patch would help to make the AP mode work. I will check on using nl80211 based APIs for hostapd but might take some time to change. Regards, Ajay
