On Wed, 10 May 2006 15:37:11 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > True, I agree here. But when rt2x00 was using the ipw stack a much > requested feature from users was to be able to perform scanning while > interface was down. (The requests did not specify if it they wanted passive > or active scanning) > But the reason for these requests was that some user space applications and/or > distribution network scripts relied on the fact that the driver was capable > of scanning > while the interface was down, so the interface would only be brought up at > boot time, > when there was no desired AP in the scan result.
Such applications and scripts are broken. Let your users fill bug reports to their distribution bugzillas. > I don't know which distributions or user space application these were, but > due to the amount > of these requests it had been considered an important feature. I wouldn't consider breaking the way the whole Linux networking works as a feature. Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - 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
