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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:26:37 -0700
From:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:26:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The very fact that this turned into a discussion is a sign that the ABI 
> breakage wasn't handled well enough. Usually, when we do something, nobody 
> ever even notices.

	There was the grand total of *ONE* user who was personally
impacted by the userspace API change (the two other, one was hit by a
bug, now fixed, one was hit because of kernel API change + external
driver). And I immediately proposed to postpone the change to a later
time.
	The people who contributed most to this tread were had not
experienced any breakage. I don't know what conclusion to reach from
that, and I don't understand why it took such proportions.

	Guessing the right time to deprecate an old API can be a trial
and error process. So, we just have to wait for the release of FC6...

	Jean
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