On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:03:02AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? Dude, that's the approach I had in my first patch for this, you had suggested to add this so I did. Anyway yeah I agree, heh. I'll send v5. Luis -- 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
