Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       David Ranson <david@unsolicited.net>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:28:10 -0500
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On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:17 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> >>>Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one
> >>>userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more?
> 
> Ah.. another one, that I was just reminded of again
> by the umpteenth person posting that their wireless
> no longer is WPA capable after upgrading from 2.6.12.
> 
> Of course, the known solution for that issue is to
> upgrade to the recently "fixed" latest wpa_supplicant
> daemon in userspace, since the old one no longer works.
> 
> Things like this are all too regular an occurance.

The distro should have solved this problem by making sure that the
kernel upgrade depends on a new wpa_supplicant package.  Don't they
bother to test this stuff before they ship it?!?

Lee

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