From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi
Subject: Re: configuring while interface is down
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:52:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311145216.GB6986@sortiz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236779314.20266.22.camel@johannes.local>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:48:34PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 14:43 +0100, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > > For cfg80211's assoc/ibss calls, I think we should reject them outright
> > > when the interface is down, any objections?
> >
> > How should assoc in cfg80211 work?
>
> see Jouni's patches.
>
> > For WEXT I like collecting all changes while the interface is down and
> > the if it's up again apply them in one step. That is the reason why I
> > want call "*_commit()" on interface up.
>
> which is what we'll continue doing in cfg80211, but I think we shouldn't
> bother the driver/mac80211 with it until the netdev is up, and thus
> reject things from nl80211.
That is quite reasonable, please go for it.
Cheers,
Samuel.
--
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 14:57 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 [this message]
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
2009-03-11 13:49 ` Dan Williams
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