Alexander Wetzel wrote: > I first tried to just refuse setting the flag in mac80211, but that > triggered a warning in nl80211 when rdev_add_virtual_intf() got the > error after green-lightening the flags in nl80211_parse_mon_options(). > > So we could add some code in nl80211 suppressing the warning when > MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES is set. That would open up drivers to refuse > cooperation when someone tries to use the flag. Is that the same WARNING which is being fixed at [1] or something new? FWIW, I think the current series would not go to the stable trees (at least there are no Fixes ot Cc: stable tags), while [1] should go there to suppress the currently observed and triggerable WARNING regarding setting the outdated cooked monitor mode mixed with some other modes. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20250131152657.5606-1-v.shevtsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
