netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix TX after monitor interface is converted to managed

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Message-Id: <200710041706.06182.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:06:05 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, linville@...driver.com,
	johannes@...solutions.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix TX after monitor interface is converted to managed

On Thursday 04 October 2007 16:34:43 Michael Wu wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 07:33, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > Fix this by unsetting the hard_start_xmit handler in ieee80211_if_reinit.
> > It will then be reinitialised to the default (ieee80211_subif_start_xmit)
> > in ieee80211_if_set_type.
> >
> Well.. this kinda sucks, but we can clean up the logic here later.
> 
> > +	BUG_ON(netif_running(dev));
> This will never happen, so there's no point.

The reason why BUG_ON exists is to catch bugs that happen, although
they Should Never Happen (tm) ;)

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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