[PATCH 0/3] remove cooked monitor mode usage

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sat Feb 15 02:28:47 PST 2025


On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 09:45:27PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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).

Thanks, applied.

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