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

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Message-ID: <4522B311.7070905@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:59:29 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	jt@....hp.com
CC:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	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
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	Now it's too late, those changes have propagated to userspace
> tools, and are now shipping in some actual release of some distro. So,
> what are we going to say to Mandriva 2007 and FC6 users, to revert
> back to an *older* version of the tools ?
> 	Because userspace has already been updated, we have only two
> options, merge it now, or in 2.6.20.

If the choice is between the ABI used by a bunch of distros in 
production, and the ABI used by two re-release distros, I think the 
choice is obvious...

	Jeff


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