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

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Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:08:43 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	jt@....hp.com
Cc:	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"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

On 10/3/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com> 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.
>

Are you saying that compatibility is broken both ways?? Not only one
needs new tools for the new kernels but also has to downgrade tools to
work with older kernels??

-- 
Dmitry
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