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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610041916290.3952@g5.osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:19:16 -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

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
> 	There was the grand total of *ONE* user who was personally
> impacted by the userspace API change (the two other, one was hit by a
> bug, now fixed, one was hit because of kernel API change + external
> driver). And I immediately proposed to postpone the change to a later
> time.

Heh, ok. I'm personally not able to really judge any wireless-extensions 
stuff, so I have to go by how noisy the discussion becomes ;)

I'll leave this to you guys to sort out, I just did want to pipe up (since 
I was asked to) that as far as _I_ am concerned, user-space interfaces 
really are very important. Whether this is one of the really important 
ones or not, I leave to the people involved to figure out, but I really 
don't want to have developers dismissing the issue.

(I think some people used to, and I think we've gotten better at it. But 
maybe I'm just being overly optimistic again ;)

		Linus
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