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wifi: ignore monitor interfaces

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If a monitor interface is created, NM will grab that interface
and change it to station mode.  That's not very nice.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2016-February/msg00068.html
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Dan Williams 2016-02-23 14:35:53 -06:00 • committed by Thomas Haller
parent b913e1d641
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src/devices/wifi/nm-wifi-factory.c
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@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ create_device (NMDeviceFactory *factory,
gboolean *out_ignore)
{
NMDeviceWifiCapabilities capabilities;
NM80211Mode mode;
g_return_val_if_fail (iface != NULL, NULL);
g_return_val_if_fail (plink != NULL, NULL);
@ -79,6 +80,16 @@ create_device (NMDeviceFactory *factory,
return NULL;
}
/* Ignore monitor-mode and other unhandled interface types.
* FIXME: keep TYPE_MONITOR devices in UNAVAILABLE state and manage
* them if/when they change to a handled type.
*/
mode = nm_platform_wifi_get_mode (NM_PLATFORM_GET, plink->ifindex);
if (mode == NM_802_11_MODE_UNKNOWN) {
*out_ignore = TRUE;
return NULL;
}
if (plink->type == NM_LINK_TYPE_WIFI)
return nm_device_wifi_new (iface, capabilities);
else