Am Sonntag 15 Januar 2006 16:51 schrieb Johannes Berg: > Isn't that rather a question of having good user-space tools that make > deactivating one type of interface and activating another seamless?
Well, it's always easy to point to userspace. However, unregister_netdev() initiates a lot of actions. IPv4 addresses and routes are removed, same for IPv6, IPX, Appletalk etc. Stacked VLAN devices are recursively unregistered (even though I have not tried yet if it works when I create VLANs over 802.3 emulated wlan interfaces ;-), udev bloat runs. And all this stuff has to be restored by the nifty new configuration utility, possibly including ifindex and future protocols. This is from my usage pattern that I want to go into monitor mode on current channel, look at some packets and return to the association without losing layer 3 configuration. So after all, it is IMHO way less painful to handle a mode change in the kernel. Stefan - 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
