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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2013-05-28 13:01:52 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-05-29 09:11:44 +0200
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parent6abb9cb99f33b20c2f32f18a3ae9cc7543e46edb (diff)
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cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag
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. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 32b060e..5920715 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -2428,6 +2428,8 @@ enum nl80211_survey_info {
* @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS: disable BSSID filtering
* @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES: report frames after processing.
* overrides all other flags.
+ * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE: use the configured MAC address
+ * and ACK incoming unicast packets.
*
* @__NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_AFTER_LAST: internal use
* @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_MAX: highest possible monitor flag
@@ -2439,6 +2441,7 @@ enum nl80211_mntr_flags {
NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_CONTROL,
NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS,
NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES,
+ NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE,
/* keep last */
__NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_AFTER_LAST,
@@ -3595,6 +3598,7 @@ enum nl80211_feature_flags {
NL80211_FEATURE_ADVERTISE_CHAN_LIMITS = 1 << 14,
NL80211_FEATURE_FULL_AP_CLIENT_STATE = 1 << 15,
NL80211_FEATURE_USERSPACE_MPM = 1 << 16,
+ NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR = 1 << 17,
};
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