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

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Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:52:44 -0700
From:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
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

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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

	And remember that it's not *terminally* broken, the user can
still use the old tools with WE-21, he just need to add a dummy
character at the end of the ESSID string.
	It's probably annoying, but it's not the end of the world.

	Jean

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