Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965385AbWJBTlz (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:41:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965386AbWJBTlz (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:41:55 -0400 Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:44784 "EHLO madara.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965385AbWJBTly (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:41:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:41:06 -0700 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Dan Williams , "John W. Linville" , Norbert Preining , Alessandro Suardi , hostap@shmoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061002194106.GB14966@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061002111537.baa077d2.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 874 Lines: 21 On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jean, John: the amount of trouble which this change is causing is quite > high considering that we're not even at -rc1 yet. It's going to get worse. > > It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to > continue to work correctly with old userspace? Actually, I have the perfect solution. We ship a new version of the Wireless Tools and wpa_supplicant alongside the kernel, and install those when the user install the new kernel. That way, we make sure they always use the correct version of userspace with the kernel. Regards, 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/