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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setting channel when interface is down inconsistency
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:31:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184272306.6669.44.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184188695.28850.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:18 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> But, of course, we need to make sure that we are consistent and that if
> we really don't allow configuration when the device is down, that all
> drivers return error when they are down.

If we want to go the way of not allowing configuration when the device
is down we can easily check and return an error in cfg80211; if we do
want to allow configuration when it is down we have to make sure all
drivers support that.

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 14:59 Setting channel when interface is down inconsistency Jon Smirl
2007-07-09 18:31 ` Dan Williams
2007-07-10 22:50   ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-11 21:18     ` Dan Williams
2007-07-12 20:31       ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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