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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610031923520.3328@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:31:08 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
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, jeff@...zik.org,
	johannes@...solutions.net, jt@....hp.com
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> Today's news seems to indicate that at least the major distros are
> already shipping the updated tools, or on the verge of shipping them.
> The window of breakage for most users looks like it will be fairly
> small, no matter what action taken.
> 
> 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.

Please correct me if I'm wrong: isn't it the case that a few of the
distros are now coming out with wireless_tools.28 supporting WE-20,
but current 2.6.18-git wireless drivers are WE-21, supported only
by wireless_tools.29.pre10?

Hugh
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