From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Kershaw Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:06:39 -0500 Message-ID: <20060116000639.GC20344@DRD1812> References: <20060113195723.GB16166@tuxdriver.com> <20060113221935.GJ16166@tuxdriver.com> <1137191522.2520.63.camel@localhost> <200601151340.10730.stefan@loplof.de> <43CAA4FD.5070605@errno.com> Reply-To: Mike Kershaw Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK" Cc: Stefan Rompf , Johannes Berg , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Sam Leffler Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43CAA4FD.5070605@errno.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > The big stumbling block I found to going with virtual devices is that it= =20 > affects user apps. I looked at doing things like auto-create a station= =20 > device for backwards compatibility but decided against it. If you=20 > really want this behaviour it can be done by user code. Right, no reason not to just put this into a hotplug script, is there? Is it, when it comes down to it, significantly different than automating firmware loads for the user? -m --=20 Mike Kershaw/Dragorn GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occured to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to bu= y. -- Chuck Palahniuk --/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDyuOP17KIInOLvbERAoZTAJ9mTn+dwdKWkSufaEHWBXwJnc3BFwCg5YUi bNUZknbLHgUHOVZn4ZtDfCA= =MEGa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK--