Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.152]:56462 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933086Ab3E1LuO (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2013 07:50:14 -0400 Message-ID: <1369741810.8548.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130528_135018_919105_17261F74) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag From: Johannes Berg To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:50:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1369738914-34367-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> References: <1369738914-34367-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 13:01 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > An active monitor interface is one that is used for communication (via > injection). It is expected to ACK incoming unicast packets. This is > useful for running various 802.11 testing utilities that associate to an > AP via injection and manage the state in user space. Applied 1 and 2. Allowing MAC address duplication seems a bit strange, but I guess it simplifies things for users? johannes