On 24/06/12 12:23PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> After the channel context emulation, there were reports that
> changing the monitor channel no longer works. This is because
> those drivers don't have WANT_MONITOR_VIF, so the setting the
> channel always exits out quickly.
>
> Fix this by always allocating the virtual monitor sdata, and
> simply not telling the driver about it unless it wanted to.
> This way, we have an interface/sdata to bind the chanctx to,
> and the emulation can work correctly.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 0a44dfc07074 ("wifi: mac80211: simplify non-chanctx drivers")
> Reported-by: Savyasaachi Vanga <savyasaachiv@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/chwoymvpzwtbmzryrlitpwmta5j6mtndocxsyqvdyikqu63lon@gfds653hkknl
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Hello Johannes,
I saw that you have dropped have dropped the "Bisected-by:" tag I added
from[0], if its still not too late it would be cool if this could either
be re-added or replaced by a "Reported-By:" tag if that is what's rather
used in this subsystem.
Cheers,
chris
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/chwoymvpzwtbmzryrlitpwmta5j6mtndocxsyqvdyikqu63lon@gfds653hkknl/
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