"John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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). Indeed I am, mea culpa. I'll go shut up now. > John -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord@xxxxxxx PGP key available - 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