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

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Message-ID: <20071004151956.GE6037@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:19:56 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, 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 Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:06:05PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 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) ;)

Precisely.

-- 
John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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