> > 2) that can be changed in userspace, but we couldn't figure out a scenario > > where it would make any sense. Johannes, any comments? Wouldn't it make > > sense to just forbid to change this in userspace? > > I don't agree. For example, what if you have some broken 802.11b only > hardware that you desperately need to get going, but it freaks out on > 802.11g encoded frames. Now if your AP is hostapd on a Linux machine, > you'll want to change the mode. Hence, also the number of available > rates change. > > Moreover, I think we can do better than just disallowing changes to the > rate set, don't you think? All of this is going to change anyway, but disallowing mode/rateset changes while associated is definitely the right thing to do. johannes
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