[PATCH] wext: handle mode switches correctly for mac80211

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:03 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:30:56PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Since mac80211 requires that the device be !IFF_UP to change the mode
> > (and I think the old prism54 fullmac driver does too), do that.  This
> > shouldn't harm fullmac devices since they can handle mode switches on
> > the fly and usually don't care about up/down that much.
> 
> I've received lots of questions and disagreement on setting interface
> down/up since hostapd does it currently when used with madwifi. The main
> complaint is that this drops IP layer configuration.. Another one is
> that this affects some external programs (e.g., Wireshark stops
> capturing frames which is quite inconvenient when debugging connection
> issues). As long as such issues are present, I would prefer to limit
> this to as few cases as possible and as such, I think it would be better
> to first try to change the mode without setting the interface down since
> there are drivers that can handle that and only if that fails and the
> mode is changing, try to set the interface down.

Fair enough, will respin.

Dan