Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.152]:51563 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932072Ab3E0ImY (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 04:42:24 -0400 Message-ID: <1369644140.8229.4.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130527_104228_089081_C774CB16) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag From: Johannes Berg To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:42:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1369577107-87931-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> References: <1369577107-87931-1-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 Sun, 2013-05-26 at 16:05 +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. I think it would be useful to make an nl80211 feature flag for this. johannes