On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 23:44 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > You see without the BIT set, the hardware won't sent any ACKs > > > (Not even those which are directed at this interface - which of > > > course is also bad, or even worse?) and with the BIT set (and if > > > the HW is in Sniffer Mode) then the hardware acks every frames, > > > even if they are for a different stations. > > > So your fix might break someone else's setup. > > > > You may want to implement the new monitor-mode-vif-to-driver thing in > > mac80211 which tells you when you're in *pure* monitor mode. > > "the new monitor-mode-vif-to-driver"? > Do you mean like adding a new IFTYPE flag? Or more like a FIF_* flag > (probably)? for the "pure" monitor/sniffer mode? No, see 4b6f1dd6a6faf4ed8d209bbd548e78b15e55aee8 johannes -- 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
