On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:33:07AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 14:48 +0200, dragoran wrote: > > > >> > 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? > > > > Why should it be allowed? Can you come up with a good reason for that > > since you lose all state anyway when doing mode transitions? > > Um, what state? Sure you lose your layer 2 state, but why force a > layer 3 lossage when you don't necessarily have to do so? For > example, I've seen plenty of networks that have both 802.11(a) and > 802.11(b/g) networks that share absolutely everything at layer 3. I think you are confusing a/b/g "mode" (which is _not_ the topic) with AP/STA/IBSS/monitor "mode" (which is the topic). John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
