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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:52:29 -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>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:21:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The current situation seems to be designed to add the new one and removing 
> the old one as a single step. THAT IS BROKEN.

	This is not the case, I don't know where you got this
idea. This is a *two* step process with a 6 month interval between the
two steps. This was clearly detailed earlier in this thread.

> The new one and the old one needs to work at the same time, exactly so 
> that there's a transition mechanism.

	Yes, this is precisely what we have been doing, the two APIs
have been working at the same time for more than 6 months.

> > 	That's exactly what it hinges on. What is your criteria for
> > removing the old ESSID API. My understanding was 6 months.
> 
> But we didn't have 6 months of the new API, did we?

	Yes, we had more of 6 months of the new API. Please check the
facts : included April 11th in Gentoo.

> People complained. 

	Yes, maybe 6 months was two short. That's why I say that we
should give it one or two more months. Maybe we need FC6 to be
released.

> The person you merged through explicitly said that if he had realized what 
> you did, he wouldn't have merged.

	I did not merge through Jeff.

> 			Linus

	Jean
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