Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965188AbWJBTeJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:34:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965368AbWJBTeJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:34:09 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:60278 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965188AbWJBTeG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:34:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uhiSKXfAPa1nQRkqxoj9mCo0lxI2oEuhykcapoaKiSn89No+aH0PB9/EXmGCjqcVRpX6L4EajjZVTGIMr1eIVf37GlWbGvXBPOlqhKEORhTyB1Xe8IgjH34m9pOZOzaZbbOvQCfhAfrEOcuTZ3S34Q1lkPbiTlMn7ON1fnMicD4= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:34:04 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: jt@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Dan Williams" , "John W. Linville" , "Norbert Preining" , "Alessandro Suardi" , hostap@shmoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20061002185550.GA14854@bougret.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061002085942.GA32387@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <5a4c581d0610020221s7bf100f8q893161b7c8c492d2@mail.gmail.com> <20061002113259.GA8295@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <5a4c581d0610020521q721e3157q88ad17d3cc84a066@mail.gmail.com> <20061002124613.GB13984@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061002165053.GA2986@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <1159808304.2834.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061002111537.baa077d2.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002185550.GA14854@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1118 Lines: 27 On 10/2/06, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to > > continue to work correctly with old userspace? > > Actually, it's impossible. New userspace can work across both > version, old userspace fails on new version. > > The whole point of the -rc process is to find problems and the > scope of it, there is no way I can know everything. At this point, we > can decide if WE-21 should go in 2.6.19 or wait for 2.6.20. But I know > that most Linux-Wireless people such as Dan and Jouni have been > waiting impatiently for those changes... > It would be nice if need of a specific version of wireless tools was documented in Documentaion/Changes. It was a surprise for me when my wireless card stopped working. -- Dmitry - 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/