iwlwifi: support explicit monitor interface

Support explicit monitor interface to keep
injection working after the HW queue changes.
This also finally enables sniffer mode.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
index 0f7c444f2440..89ccddcf0230 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ void iwl_connection_init_rx_config(struct iwl_priv *priv,
                                                   RXON_FILTER_ACCEPT_GRP_MSK;
                 break;
 
+        case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR:
+                ctx->staging.dev_type = RXON_DEV_TYPE_SNIFFER;
+                break;
+
         default:
                 IWL_ERR(priv, "Unsupported interface type %d\n",
                         ctx->vif->type);