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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] wifi: RTL8821CE does not work in monitor
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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On 6/12/2024 12:37 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 00:56 +0000, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Just got pinged (sp?) about this, can you share the driver fix so I can
>>> take a look what the issue is about?
>>>
>>
>> Please reference patch below. I copy this idea from rtw89 [1], which the main
>> stuff is to add WANT_MONITOR_VIF and case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR in add_interface().
> 
> Ah, OK, but that gives me a hint. Yes, I see the issue now.
> 
> OK it's not trivial and it might leave ath12k still not working (though
> not sure it ever did before? or maybe I'm missing something...), but I
> think I can fix this. Let's see.
> 

Monitor mode is not yet supported in ath12k, this feature is work in progress.

Vasanth