Rafał Miłecki wrote: > From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> > > So far there were two monitor frame formats: > 1) 802.11 frames (with frame (sub)type & all addresses) > 2) 802.11 frames with the radiotap header > > Testing the latest FullMAC firmwares for 4366b1/4366c0 resulted in > discovering a new format being used. It seems (almost?) identical to the > one known from ucode used in SoftMAC devices which is most likely the > same codebase anyway. > > While new firmwares will /announce/ radiotap header support using the > "rtap" fw capability string it seems no string was added for the new > ucode header format. > > All above means that: > 1) We need new format support when dealing with a received frame > 2) A new feature bit & mapping quirks have to be added manually > > As for now only an empty radiotap is being created. Adding support for > extracting some info (band, channel, signal, etc.) is planned for the > future. > > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. e665988be29c brcmfmac: support monitor frames with the hardware/ucode header -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10802433/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
