RE: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down?

["Winkler, Tomas" <tomas winkler intel com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johannes Berg [mailto:johannes sipsolutions net]
>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:34 PM
>To: Winkler, Tomas
>Cc: dragoran; Dan Williams; linux-wireless vger kernel org; network
>manager; ipw3945-devel lists sourceforge net
>Subject: RE: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down?
>
>On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:17 +0300, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
>
>> There is a definitely a known issue in the driver that we still need
to
>> resolve, but I agree with Johannes that there is a problem in design
of
>> the configuration as well.
>
>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. If
>userspace breaks because of that it's their fault.
>
I know for sure there is an issue in our driver for moving to master
(AP) mode. I'm just cleaning up this patch...

I'm really not an expert on the configuration but I think at least the
transition from STA to IBSS mode and back should be smooth without
reloading the driver. What you do if the driver is compiled to kernel
will we reboot?

I hope we are talking about the same issue here...
Thansk
Tomas

>johannes