On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 08:57 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:14 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: > >> Implements behaviour seen in mac80211. A running > >> monitor always has a channel - even before > >> .set_channel. This way we won't break current > >> behaviour. > > > > I'm a little doubtful about this. Currently, mac80211 will keep the > > channel if you set it on say wlan0, your monitor iface gets the same > > channel. Then if you remove wlan0, you still have the same channel, but > > it seems here this is different now? I'm not sure it matters much, but > > it's worth thinking about? Or am I totally misunderstanding this now? > > Right. It's not the exact same behaviour. It only guarantees a channel > is always set in monitor mode. We could maybe set the last > monitor-mode-channel seen when starting up monitor-mode again. Would > that be okay? Yeah I think that's probably fine. Come to think of it, without that change you always have a channel pointer, but it's not guaranteed to be programmed into the device? Maybe I'm confused. 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
