On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:00:11 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > I agree completely with renaming it. I did not implement that part and > haven't really ever liked the name.. ;-) Both of the proposed > alternatives sound acceptable.
Ok. > Radio was enabled for station modes automatically to make it easier for > users. hostapd is taking care of that for AP modes, but for client mode, > there was no automatic mechanism. In other words, it may be useful to > enable the radio automatically in some cases (e.g., if > hostapd/wpa_supplicant is not doing this for the user). AFAIK generally accepted conclusion is that a card shouldn't send or receive anything until one of its interfaces is UP. So we can go with RADIO_ENABLED set to 1 by default. If user disables it, he should now what he is doing. -- 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
