Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751835AbWJAFXY (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:23:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751743AbWJAFXY (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:23:24 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:33850 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbWJAFXX (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:23:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=o+FwfcYyi4xdIv/WUxp4Po3rZwtIvYqXniWeKLRNh8LaHKQ8HSFfvZGSdlU+UhPMKBlxeFGht1qZe7Gc7/8DUnbJGk8WVmcV16rEulE9DZVLTH9g+1BNu3AP4Rih5X7gTPP42vACYw4b3pFNdFc1AZY38ZD4FKzdPZcZJ2wLQHY= Message-ID: <84144f020609302223i1cb126dfgf3e006c891fdcc4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:23:21 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Pavel Machek" Subject: Re: wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA) Cc: "Jean Tourrilhes" , "Alessandro Suardi" , "John W. Linville" , "Linux Kernel" , "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <20060930193853.GA6890@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5a4c581d0609291225r4a2cbaacr35e5ef73d69f8718@mail.gmail.com> <20060929202928.GA14000@tuxdriver.com> <5a4c581d0609291340q835571bg9657ac0a68bab20e@mail.gmail.com> <20060929212748.GA10288@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20060930193853.GA6890@ucw.cz> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 647604c1050fc9e6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 13 On 9/30/06, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well... we are trying to have stable abi here. Breaking older wireless > tools randomly is *not* okay in the middle of stable series. Seconded. This is totally unacceptable so please fix up the ABI. You must follow the proper procedure and add incompatible changes to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt so people will have enough to migrate. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/