From: bruno randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: mac80211 bug? no data is being transmitted after interface is brought down and then up again
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:53:19 +0900
Cc: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?B=E4chler?= <thomas@archlinux.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Tuesday 01 April 2008 04:02:25 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:32:51PM +0100, Thomas B=E4chler 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 th=
e
> > 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=20
was before, when i bring the interface up it want it to work (associate=
, join=20
IBSS) and be able to transmit data.

bruno
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