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

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Message-ID: <4525364D.1000409@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:43:57 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	jt@....hp.com
CC:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"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>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	Once again, your facts are totally wrong about Wireless
> Extensions.
> 	Have you ever looked at the code in the kernel ? I guarantee
> you that adding whatever specific WE translation is quite easy. In
> this precise case, this would only increase confusion, so this should
> be considered bad API practice.


Wireless Extensions has reached end-of-life, and so we only need to 
support what's out there in wide distribution.

	Jeff


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