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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Disallow changing chan type on monitor when
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:08:11 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 13:06 +0200, Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> If you add a monitor interface in paralell to a normal interface
> mac80211 will let you to change the channel type on the monitor
> interface even if you are connected. Add an explicit check to
> disallow this.

Is this against 3.5, and is it really needed there? It's a corner case
to start with.

johannes