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From: Gavin Li <gavinli@thegavinli.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:29:32 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: allow monitor mode capture in STA mode
To: "Coelho, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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        "Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
        "Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>,
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Hi Luciano,

Thanks for the update. I was hoping that it would be supported since I
remember that iwldvm had no problem with it in the past.

Best,
Gavin

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Coelho, Luciano
<luciano.coelho@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
>
> On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 22:11 -0700, gavinli@thegavinli.com wrote:
>> From: Gavin Li <git@thegavinli.com>
>>
>> Open up the filter if there is a monitor interface configured; this
>> allows all packets on the channel to be captured even if the device is
>> in STA mode and associated to a BSS.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <git@thegavinli.com>
>> ---
>
> Sorry for the delay in responding, we were discussing this patch
> internally.
>
> Unfortunately this is not something that our firmware officially
> supports, so we cannot allow it in the driver.  The firmware doesn't
> *block* this from working, but there are no guarantees that it will work
> and that there will not be any side-effects.
>
> If this works for you, feel free to use it (that's one of the beauties
> of open source), but I won't apply it in the mainline driver.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Luca.