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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:30:39 +0100 From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz> To: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org> Cc: bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michael Buesch <mbuesch@...enet.de> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] bcm43xx: set channel when the interface is brought up On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:50:54 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > It turns out d80211 uses the "config" method of the hardware drivers > very sparingly. It's only used for scanning and in ioctl commands. It > is not called after the interface has been brought up with the "open" > method. > > I don't know whose responsibility it should be to apply the > configuration when the interface is brought up. I'm not familiar with > d80211 design principles. I think it should be done in the stack (actually, it's on todo list for quite some time). However, I don't consider this as a big problem - just do it in a driver (like your patch does) for now. Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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