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

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Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:19:42 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>, hostap@...oo.com,
	ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johannes@...solutions.net,
	jt@....hp.com
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

John W. Linville wrote:
> The more we can clean-up the WE API, the easier it will be to implement
> the cfg80211 WE compatibility layer intended for wireless-dev.
> I think WE-21 makes things better in that respect.
> 
> Finally, I already scaled-back Jean's original WE-21 patch.  I only
> anticipate minor bug fixes for WE from now on, with nl80211/cfg80211
> as the heir-apparent.
> 
> With all that said, I'd prefer to keep the existing WE-21 patches and
> add Jean's fixes ASAP.  Is this acceptable?  If not, I'll submit the
> reversions to Jeff ASAP.

I for one don't want to change the userspace ABI for this...  If I had 
realized the userspace ABI was changing (<- my fault), I wouldn't have 
merged the changes in the first place.

	Jeff


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