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

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Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:40:16 -0700
From:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff@...zik.org
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 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

	wireless_tools.28 do support WE-21. I'm not a fool.

	Jean
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