From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:49262 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756437AbXGMJGc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:06:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Setting channel when interface is down inconsistency From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: Jon Smirl , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1184188695.28850.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <9e4733910707090759v5cd20f2en1f6c4e6fc6279b3f@mail.gmail.com> <1184005862.5671.2.camel@xo-13-A4-25.localdomain> <1184107850.3738.20.camel@johannes.berg> <1184188695.28850.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-MqZJ2+0KPlu5tSq+oQrn" Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:31:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1184272306.6669.44.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-MqZJ2+0KPlu5tSq+oQrn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=-MqZJ2+0KPlu5tSq+oQrn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGlo+x/ETPhpq3jKURAko5AJ93zveY7WQX8mqS81Hz5+5RoZpbDQCbBA3J 29Ss/5x8qstOreC+aE6YY3o= =pcw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-MqZJ2+0KPlu5tSq+oQrn--