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.
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| @@ -4727,8 +4727,8 @@ enum nl80211_survey_info { · 4726 unmodified lines | ||
| 4727 | 4727 | * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_PLCPFAIL: pass frames with bad PLCP |
| 4728 | 4728 | * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_CONTROL: pass control frames |
| 4729 | 4729 | * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_OTHER_BSS: disable BSSID filtering |
| 4730 | − * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES: report frames after processing. | |
| 4731 | − * overrides all other flags. | |
| 4730 | + * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES: deprecated | |
| 4731 | + * will unconditionally be refused | |
| 4732 | 4732 | * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_ACTIVE: use the configured MAC address |
| 4733 | 4733 | * and ACK incoming unicast packets. |
| 4734 | 4734 | * @NL80211_MNTR_FLAG_SKIP_TX: do not pass local tx packets |