On 5/27/2018 7:34 AM, Julian Calaby wrote:
Hi Arend,
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:38 PM Arend van Spriel <
arend.vanspr...@broadcom.com> wrote:
On 5/22/2018 3:18 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
From: Rafał Miłecki <ra...@milecki.pl>
New Broadcom firmwares mark monitor mode packets using a newly defined
bit in the flags field. Use it to filter them out and pass to the
monitor interface. These defines were found in bcmmsgbuf.h from SDK.
As not every firmware generates radiotap header this commit introduces
BRCMF_FEAT_MON_FMT_RADIOTAP that has to be set per firmware version. If
not present brcmf_netif_mon_rx() assumed packet being a raw 802.11 frame
and prepends it with an empty radiotap header.
It's limited to the msgbuf protocol. Adding support for SDIO/USB devices
will require some extra research.
So I went looking on my shelf and found the patch I made for SDIO a
while back. It relies on firmware change and I did not introduce a
firmware flag for it. I will send the patch as RFT so you can have a
look at it.
I checked our internal driver and it turns out the raw vs. radiotap is a
compilation option. So depending on customer they would get either
firmware doing the radiotap header generation or the host driver,
without any run-time way to determine it. Not nice for brcmfmac.
I pretty sure I know what the answer to this is going to be, however I
still have to ask:
Is it possible to open up _any_ part of the firmware? (Even if it's just
the host-interface end and the hardware end is a big ugly blob) It'd make
dealing with stuff like this so much easier if we can just toggle a flag
and recompile. (I'm also sure that we'd be more than happy to pass some
flag through telling us/you that it's unofficial firmware and has probably
broken the hardware, etc.)
Hah. Yeah, with next to nil uncertainty I know the answer to this as
well. If you know how long it took before we committed to supporting the
upstream drivers. Despite my better judgement I will pass your idea, but
it is not something that is going to fall in the timeframe that Rafał
had in mind.
Regards,
Arend
