brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface
authorRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:44:35 +0000 (21:44 +0200)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 4 Jul 2018 15:05:56 +0000 (18:05 +0300)
commit01f69dfafdbe7deff58b58053bc3a4a75c6a570c
tree93cb99041ec83dc99cf1a14284337675ec571464
parentc3ae2103e06953b1521a96c3e6934136b835e027
brcmfmac: detect firmware support for monitor interface

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 <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.h