From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932090AbWAOPvq (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:51:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932089AbWAOPvq (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:51:46 -0500 Received: from sipsolutions.net ([66.160.135.76]:44301 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932082AbWAOPvp (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:51:45 -0500 Message-ID: <56187.84.135.205.30.1137340292.squirrel@secure.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <200601151340.10730.stefan@loplof.de> References: <20060113195723.GB16166@tuxdriver.com> <20060113221935.GJ16166@tuxdriver.com> <1137191522.2520.63.camel@localhost> <200601151340.10730.stefan@loplof.de> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:51:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration) From: "Johannes Berg" To: "Stefan Rompf" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stefan Rompf wrote: > Even though it is a bit more work on kernel side, we should allow changing > the > mode of virtual devices. Let's face it, even though we find multi-BSS > capabilities very interesting, 999 of 1000 users won't care due to the two > facts that IPW firmware IMHO doesn't allow it and virtual interfaces are > limited to one channel anyway. These users rightfully expect to have one > interface and be able to do all configurations on it. Isn't that rather a question of having good user-space tools that make deactivating one type of interface and activating another seamless? johannes