On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:39 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > I don't agree with this scheme. Association should be started on > explicit userspace request (*). As we definitely don't want to add a new > WE (or some other) call to perform this, the only call we can use for > telling the driver "ok, now it's the time to associate" is ifconfig up. > So opening the card should follow its configuration.
I don't think that's really right either. For one thing, things like DHCP's timeout start counting at about the same time as "ifconfig up", and association can take some time. But why don't we want to add a call to do this? I'd agree that it shouldn't be a WE call. There seemed to be general agreement at OLS last month that we should really be using netlink for this stuff anyway, and it doesn't seem like adding a netlink call is all that painful. -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
