From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>,
Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: configuring while interface is down
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:46:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311134640.GB8761@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236774973.20266.13.camel@johannes.local>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:36:13PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alina raised an interesting point -- wext allows you to configure an
> interface while it is down, at least by convention. Some parameters for
> cfg80211 we reject while an interface is down, e.g. adding new stations,
> partly for technical reasons and partly because that doesn't make sense
> when the mode of interface isn't fixed.
>
> For cfg80211's assoc/ibss calls, I think we should reject them outright
> when the interface is down, any objections?
I think that makes perfect sense.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 12:36 configuring while interface is down Johannes Berg
2009-03-11 13:43 ` Alina Friedrichsen
2009-03-11 13:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-11 14:52 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-03-14 6:24 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-11 15:58 ` Alina Friedrichsen
2009-03-11 16:05 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-11 13:46 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-03-11 13:49 ` Dan Williams
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