From 01f69dfafdbe7deff58b58053bc3a4a75c6a570c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:44:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Many/most of firmwares support creating monitor interface but only the most recent ones explicitly /announce/ it using a "monitor" entry in the list of capabilities. Check for that entry and store internally info about monitor mode support using a new feature flag. Once we sort out all details of handling monitor interface it will be used when reporting available interfaces to the cfg80211. Later some fallback detecion method may be added for older firmwares. For now just stick to the "monitor" capability which should be 100% reliable. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.h | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static const struct brcmf_feat_fwcap brc { BRCMF_FEAT_MBSS, "mbss" }, { BRCMF_FEAT_MCHAN, "mchan" }, { BRCMF_FEAT_P2P, "p2p" }, + { BRCMF_FEAT_MONITOR, "monitor" }, }; #ifdef DEBUG --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.h @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ * WOWL_GTK: (WOWL) GTK rekeying offload * WOWL_ARP_ND: ARP and Neighbor Discovery offload support during WOWL. * MFP: 802.11w Management Frame Protection. + * MONITOR: firmware can pass monitor packets to host. */ #define BRCMF_FEAT_LIST \ BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(MBSS) \ @@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(WOWL_ND) \ BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(WOWL_GTK) \ BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(WOWL_ARP_ND) \ - BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(MFP) + BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(MFP) \ + BRCMF_FEAT_DEF(MONITOR) /* * Quirks: