From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:20:48 +0100
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Am Sonntag 15 Januar 2006 21:11 schrieb Johannes Berg:

> [iwconfig mode ...]
>
> Yeah, I agree with this, it is much cleaner to handle in the kernel.
> Think about the issues if you have a struct net_device that has 250
> bytes of "payload" for the struct virtual_sta_device in it and you want
> to switch that to a struct virtual_monitor_device. Icky.

Well, nobody forces you to allocate dev->priv together with the net_device, 
you can set and change this pointer yourself. So I don't see a problem here.

Stefan
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