On Tuesday 01 April 2008 04:02:25 John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:32:51PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > My question is, should this be considered a bug in mac80211? > > IMO, when an interface is brought down and then up again, one of the > > following things should happen: > > 1) Everything works as before > > 2) Nothing works, but the card disassociates from the network. > > #2 would be my vote. why is that? would it be so difficult to provide #1? from a usability point of view #1 would be clearly better. whatever the state was before, when i bring the interface up it want it to work (associate, join IBSS) and be able to transmit data. bruno -- 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
