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Subject: Re: creating ap interface
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On 17 June 2015 at 21:06, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 20:38 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> When I create an AP interface using iw, it is followed by a change
>> interface back to managed mode. I added a WARN_ON to see where it came
>> from and it turns out to be the NetworkManager. However, I had disabled
>> wifi as you suggested on the mailing list once. What is your take on
>> this: bug or intentional?
>
> You shouldn't really have a WARN_ON() on a path that can be hit by
> userspace like that :)

I'm pretty sure it was for debugging purposes.