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>
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 @@
* @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 @@
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 @@
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,
};
/**