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mac80211: remove support for IFF_PROMISC
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:40:58 +0000 (14:40 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:14:13 +0000 (11:14 +0200)
commit3f2a1ae893cd18f6fb0a954d331618475c6041d5
tree3c866bf75c99dd402b4e152bdeefaa209f38eb8d
parent2739ee4a16c29a7dcf079e2300f7bd75e054898c
mac80211: remove support for IFF_PROMISC

This support is essentially useless as typically networks are encrypted,
frames will be filtered by hardware, and rate scaling will be done with
the intended recipient in mind. For real monitoring of the network, the
monitor mode support should be used instead.

Removing it removes a lot of corner cases.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
43 files changed:
drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.c
drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/sta.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/3945-mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/mac80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
drivers/net/wireless/p54/fwio.c
drivers/net/wireless/p54/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.h
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c
drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c
drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/iface.c
net/mac80211/main.c
net/mac80211/rx.c