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

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Message-ID: <20061003221612.GA1790@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:16:12 -0700
From:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>, hostap@...oo.com,
	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 02:59:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> > I.E.  With "WE-21 aware" tools already in the wild, it isn't now clear
> > to me how WE can evolve any further than WE-20.
> 
> Well, if you get a WE-22 out soon enough, the situation will be one where 
> people who are fast at updating will have a fixed version quickly, and the 
> ones that aren't quick at updating will never have even seen the broken 
> case.

	Wrong.
	Slackware has just released with WE-21 aware tools. Users of
this version of Slackware will never see anything else than WE-21
aware tools. And if there is a distro and users which are
conservative, this is Slackware.
	Same deal for Mandriva 2007.
	Regards,

	Jean
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