[PATCH 0/3] remove cooked monitor mode usage

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Feb 3 12:45:27 PST 2025


As discussed elsewhere [1][2], the cooked monitor mode is
really old, and hasn't been necessary in over a decade.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/a49e58998553c45953a30243ad1957c06ce6db8c.camel@sipsolutions.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/49fe46c6a158873cdc6593b0d5630b62a59ed059.camel@sipsolutions.net/

Remove the code supporting this. Some tests simply don't
need to use_monitor (patch 1), some tests just go away as
they're specific to this mode (patch 2), and overall the
code can be cleaned up, where for testing unencrypted TX
there's no need for cooked monitor, just normal one works
fine for that case (patch 3).

johannes



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