On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:50 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Monitor mode is able to TX by using injected frames. We should > not allow injected frames to be sent unless allowed by regulatory > rules. Since AP mode uses a monitor interfaces to transmit > management frames we have to take care to not break AP mode as > well while resolving this. We deal with this by allowing compliant > APs solutions to inform mac80211 if their monitor interface is > intended to be used for an AP by setting a cfg80211 flag for the > monitor interface. hostapd, for example, currently does its own > checks to ensure AP mode is not used on channels which require radar > detection. Once such solutions are available it can can enable this > flag. > + * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_AP_MGT: this monitor interface is used for AP mode > + * to be able to inject management frames. Come to think of it, is that really a good name? The intention is "will check for radar" but then we don't even have a way to check for radar yet! So maybe we should leave that out, and introduce it with proper radar support later? johannes
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