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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610041316500.3952@g5.osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:19:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
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

In other words, if we really have had the code to handle both interfaces 
in the kernel, I vote for just reverting the patch that "fixed" it to just 
one.

But I suspect that's not what you're really saying. I think you're saying 
is that we've had two different interfaces for _different_ chips, and that 
some user-space tools have supported both. And since clearly the distros 
haven't updated to those tools yet (or this wouldn't be an issue), we 
still want to avoid a flag-day, and wait until they have done so.

			Linus
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