From: bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 bug? no data is being transmitted after interface is brought down and then up again
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:53:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804011053.19675.bruno@thinktube.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080331190225.GA12933@tuxdriver.com>
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 04:02:25 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:32:51PM +0100, Thomas B=E4chler wrote:
> > My question is, should this be considered a bug in mac80211?
> > IMO, when an interface is brought down and then up again, one of th=
e
> > following things should happen:
> > 1) Everything works as before
> > 2) Nothing works, but the card disassociates from the network.
>
> #2 would be my vote.
why is that? would it be so difficult to provide #1?
from a usability point of view #1 would be clearly better. whatever the=
state=20
was before, when i bring the interface up it want it to work (associate=
, join=20
IBSS) and be able to transmit data.
bruno
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-29 18:32 mac80211 bug? no data is being transmitted after interface is brought down and then up again Thomas Bächler
2008-03-31 19:02 ` John W. Linville
2008-03-31 19:51 ` Thomas Bächler
2008-04-01 1:53 ` bruno randolf [this message]
2008-04-01 6:27 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-04-01 12:57 ` bruno randolf
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