[question] ath12k: support for tx in monitor mode?

[Kang Yang]

michael at bvsystems.com 於 1/9/2026 11:43 PM 寫道:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a use-case involving transmitting in monitor mode, currently using
> the
> old AR9280 chipset. I'm trying to modernize, and I'd like to support
> 802.11be.
> I looked through drivers/net/wireless/ath/ in 6.18.y, and it seems that this
> capability (referred to as 'full' monitor support in ath11k I think?) is not
> supported in ath12k (based on the if statement at the top of
> ath12k_mac_op_tx
> which checks for WMI_VDEV_TYPE_MONITOR and bails out), please correct me if
> I'm
> wrong. I also tested with WCN7850/hw2.0 and was unable to transmit. My
> question
> is, is this a hardware limitation of the WCN7850, or is it just something
> that
> ath12k doesn't support? If so, are there any plans to support this?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any info you can offer,
> Sincerely, Michael E. Tuma
> 

Hi, if you are asking whether WCN7850 supports TX in monitor mode, my 
answer is: the hardware does support it, but we haven't implemented the 
code.

Now we don't have any plan on this yet.

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