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When on a fixed channel in monitor mode, return what that fixed channel is.

Message ID BANLkTin9CPeu6LsXiQMu632GU4CvNuwO6Q@mail.gmail.com
State New
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Nicholas Hockey June 23, 2011, 12:35 a.m. UTC
When on a fixed channel in monitor mode, the kernel does not return
the current channel, this should fix that.

--
Nicholas (Tilt) Hockey

Comments

Tim Gardner June 23, 2011, 5:31 p.m. UTC | #1
On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Nicholas Hockey wrote:
> When on a fixed channel in monitor mode, the kernel does not return
> the current channel, this should fix that.
>
> --
> Nicholas (Tilt) Hockey
>

This is best submitted on the wireless developer mailing list at 
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org

rtg
Nicholas Hockey June 23, 2011, 5:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Nicholas Hockey wrote:
>>
>> When on a fixed channel in monitor mode, the kernel does not return
>> the current channel, this should fix that.
>>
>> --
>> Nicholas (Tilt) Hockey
>>
>
> This is best submitted on the wireless developer mailing list at
> linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>
> rtg
> --
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
>

Thanks for pointing me in their direction Tim. Ill do that and see
what they think about it.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/wireless/chan.c b/net/wireless/chan.c
index 17cd0c0..261ee32 100644
--- a/net/wireless/chan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/chan.c
@@ -82,10 +82,12 @@  int cfg80211_set_freq(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 {
 	struct ieee80211_channel *chan;
 	int result;
+    struct wireless_dev *mon_dev = NULL;
 
-	if (wdev && wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+	if (wdev && wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) {
+        mon_dev = wdev;
 		wdev = NULL;
-
+    }
 	if (wdev) {
 		ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);
 
@@ -131,5 +133,8 @@  int cfg80211_set_freq(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 	if (wdev)
 		wdev->channel = chan;
 
+    if (mon_dev)
+        mon_dev->channel = chan;
+
 	return 0;
 }