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wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: Stop supporting cooked monitor
authorAlexander Wetzel <Alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Tue, 4 Feb 2025 11:13:51 +0000 (12:13 +0100)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:58:17 +0000 (11:58 +0100)
commitbe22179cfb2fb1164004b70b33a4bdf67e6dd349
tree2fe61854ac856c8f1ececeaa02bf912611e5dea2
parentf5903ca220360d2e5539473aacd845909a2d5274
wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: Stop supporting cooked monitor

Unconditionally start to refuse creating cooked monitor interfaces to
phase them out.

There is no feature flag for drivers to opt-in for cooked monitor and
all known users are using/preferring the modern API since the hostapd
release 1.0 in May 2012.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <Alexander@wetzel-home.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204111352.7004-1-Alexander@wetzel-home.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
include/net/cfg80211.h
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
net/wireless/nl80211.c