linux-kernel - Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

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Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:34:04 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	jt@....hp.com
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "Dan Williams" <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Norbert Preining" <preining@...ic.at>,
	"Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	hostap@...oo.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On 10/2/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to
> > continue to work correctly with old userspace?
>
>        Actually, it's impossible. New userspace can work across both
> version, old userspace fails on new version.
>
>        The whole point of the -rc process is to find problems and the
> scope of it, there is no way I can know everything. At this point, we
> can decide if WE-21 should go in 2.6.19 or wait for 2.6.20. But I know
> that most Linux-Wireless people such as Dan and Jouni have been
> waiting impatiently for those changes...
>

It would be nice if need of a specific version of wireless tools was
documented in Documentaion/Changes. It was a surprise for me when my
wireless card stopped working.

-- 
Dmitry
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