On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:18:03PM +0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > Reinette Chatre wrote: > > From: Zhu, Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > mac80211 supports multiple virtual interfaces for a single device. For > > example, a managed interface (wlan0) and a monitor interface (mon0) can > > exist at the same time. Thus priv->iw_mode is not sufficient to track > > the wireless mode any more. > > This example is not correct, mac80211 will only support multiple virtual > interfaces when the driver allows this via add_interface (which I don't > think yours does) and it will *never* tell you about monitor interfaces at > all except by way of configuring the filter differently. We do support add_interface in iwlagn. But it works correctly only if the second one is a monitor interface. > Therefore, all the "is monitor" checks in iwlwifi are pretty pointless > unless you really want to have differing behaviour between "monitor + > something" and "just monitor"? In case of BSS + monitor, we need to tell firmware about the association status. This differs with pure montior mode. Thanks, -yi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
