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Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down?
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Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:17 +0300, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
>
>   
>> There is a definitely a known issue in the driver that we still need to
>> resolve, but I agree with Johannes that there is a problem in design of
>> the configuration as well. 
>>     
>
> Nono, you cannot solve it in the driver. The whole design of mac80211
> mandates that assumption and I think it is a valid one to make.
why? did the old way (allow mode changing while up) caused any problems?