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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:36:13PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Alina raised an interesting point -- wext allows you to configure an
> interface while it is down, at least by convention. Some parameters for
> cfg80211 we reject while an interface is down, e.g. adding new stations,
> partly for technical reasons and partly because that doesn't make sense
> when the mode of interface isn't fixed.
> 
> For cfg80211's assoc/ibss calls, I think we should reject them outright
> when the interface is down, any objections?

I think that makes perfect sense.

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