From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Associate on 'ifconfig up' Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:53:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1147200799.2794.60.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <1146847107.2766.13.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1146939849.2503.108.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200605071506.06552.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:1721 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750821AbWEISxn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 14:53:43 -0400 To: Michael Buesch In-Reply-To: <200605071506.06552.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 15:06 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 06 May 2006 20:24, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 17:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > I still need this hack to work around the fact that softmac doesn't > > > attempt to associate when we bring the device up... > > > > It'd be quite good to get this fixed in 2.6.17 too. Otherwise, the > > device doesn't manage to associate if you use the fairly common sequence > > of iwconfig then dhclient. > > > > It's a bit of an evil hack and it should really be fixed in softmac -- > > but it's only moving an _existing_ hack from one place in the driver to > > another. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch > > John, please try to push this before 2.6.17. > Thanks. This didn't make it into the tree that Linus just pulled? -- dwmw2