mac80211: add a comment about monitor-to-dev injection

Add a note with a use-case for the monitor-to-dev injection
mechanism in mac80211, reported by Ben Greear.

Change-Id: I6456997ef9bc40b24ede860b6ef2fed5af49cf44
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index db38be1b75fa68efd0a13bd85c773d4d5335d8bd..a53af8cd37561afb49e48837665de990e2017f44 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -2270,6 +2270,9 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
         * isn't always enough to find the interface to use; for proper
         * VLAN/WDS support we will need a different mechanism (which
         * likely isn't going to be monitor interfaces).
+        *
+        * This is necessary, for example, for old hostapd versions that
+        * don't use nl80211-based management TX/RX.
         */
        sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);