problems with 2.6.12

Hello all,
I was having problems with 2.6.12 + madwifi in master mode. No packets were 
going out. With tcpdump I see DHCP requests coming in, with strace I see the 
dhcp daemon sending replies out, but they don't show up in tcpdump.

It's caused by this change:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2005-05/msg00109.html

which btw also causes problems for other people:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111853727810345&w=2

Madwifi doesn't call netif_carrier_on() in master mode, so Linux drops all 
packets. When I remove the dev_deactivate() line, it works fine again.

Should we fix madwifi or the kernel?

Eric