linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH] mac80211: do not send duplicate data frames to the cooked monitor interface
@ 2011-02-04 18:20 Felix Fietkau
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Felix Fietkau @ 2011-02-04 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-wireless; +Cc: linville, johannes

I can't think of a valid use case for this aside from debugging (which can
also be done with a real monitor interface), and dropping these frames saves
some precious CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 7185c93..65bc1f4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_check(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 				rx->local->dot11FrameDuplicateCount++;
 				rx->sta->num_duplicates++;
 			}
-			return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
+			return RX_DROP_UNUSABLE;
 		} else
 			rx->sta->last_seq_ctrl[rx->queue] = hdr->seq_ctrl;
 	}
-- 
1.7.3.2


^ permalink raw reply related	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2011-02-04 18:20 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2011-02-04 18:20 [PATCH] mac80211: do not send duplicate data frames to the cooked monitor interface Felix Fietkau

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).