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

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Message-ID: <4522DA9B.6050207@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:48:11 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
CC:	jt@....hp.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

John W. Linville wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't see any way to "fix" WE-21 without similarly
> breaking wireless-tools 29 and other "WE-21 aware" apps.  And since
> I'll bet that the various WE-aware apps have checks like "if WE >
> 20" for managing ESSID length settings, we may have painted ourselves
> into a korner (sic).

The apps are based on a pre-release kernel, which everyone knows could 
change, precisely for reasons like this.  Sounds like somebody took a 
risk, and lost...

	Jeff


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