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

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Date:	Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:57:37 -0400
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	jt@....hp.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"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 Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:41 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Jean, John: the amount of trouble which this change is causing is quite
> > high considering that we're not even at -rc1 yet.  It's going to get worse.
> > 
> > It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to
> > continue to work correctly with old userspace?
> 
> 	Actually, I have the perfect solution. We ship a new version
> of the Wireless Tools and wpa_supplicant alongside the kernel, and
> install those when the user install the new kernel. That way, we make
> sure they always use the correct version of userspace with the kernel.

Like udev :)  And libsysfs :)

> 	Regards,
> 
> 	Jean
> 

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