Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965136AbWJBRM0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:12:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965137AbWJBRMZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:12:25 -0400 Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:48859 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965136AbWJBRMY (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:12:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:11:47 -0700 To: Alessandro Suardi Cc: "John W. Linville" , Linux Kernel , Dave Jones Subject: Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA Message-ID: <20061002171147.GC14535@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <5a4c581d0609291225r4a2cbaacr35e5ef73d69f8718@mail.gmail.com> <20060929202928.GA14000@tuxdriver.com> <5a4c581d0609291340q835571bg9657ac0a68bab20e@mail.gmail.com> <20060929212748.GA10288@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <5a4c581d0609291504r40bc1796q715c5ffa41aa7b1b@mail.gmail.com> <20060929224316.GA10423@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <5a4c581d0609291552k7dc39685t15188bb5c881d3bd@mail.gmail.com> <5a4c581d0609300527m1654f2cha56517e1c85f4606@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5a4c581d0609300527m1654f2cha56517e1c85f4606@mail.gmail.com> Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Jean Tourrilhes X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPL-MailScanner-From: jt@hpl.hp.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 37 On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:27:01PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > Good news, WPA association is back to work for me using > wireless_tools.29.pre10 and wpa_supplicant-0.4.9 with > > 2.6.18-git11 vanilla > 2.6.18-git11 with reverted wireless fixes > 2.6.18-git13 > > which appears to mean that backward compatibility of the > new tools with older kernel features has also been tested :) We can't really test everything, but at least we try to do the basics. The strong versioning of the API does help with regards to this kind of change. > Dave, do you want me to file a request for updated FC5 RPMs > for wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant in bugzilla or is it > - already happening > - never going to happen > ? I believe we are actually pretty close to FC6, which should have all the right bits... > Thanks, ciao, > > --alessandro Ciao... Jean - 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/