>-----Original Message----- >From: Johannes Berg [mailto:johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:34 PM >To: Winkler, Tomas >Cc: dragoran; Dan Williams; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; network >manager; ipw3945-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down? > >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. If >userspace breaks because of that it's their fault. > I know for sure there is an issue in our driver for moving to master (AP) mode. I'm just cleaning up this patch... I'm really not an expert on the configuration but I think at least the transition from STA to IBSS mode and back should be smooth without reloading the driver. What you do if the driver is compiled to kernel will we reboot? I hope we are talking about the same issue here... Thansk Tomas >johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
