On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:08 -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 can 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 add this > flag for monitor interfaces. > > Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > This v6 leaves the AP flag out and removes the unused sdata.. Yeah, let's go with this until hostapd is fixed anyway. johannes
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
