Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965440AbWJBWIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965443AbWJBWIF (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:05 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.236]:14692 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965440AbWJBWID (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YhQfWlehL4AWSHuxD1dNeG8dEB2nRgXwojcv2I6jMJOqij6NEtWKVh4H9+X5zw3AJroTgkWKZVGqIQxSN8mUethUZDQrDMOz42omUdxm+suGf0HY2rKuDPyZseHYyRDdhQ/2RVL9AeLivFcYHemdo+tRyxxD+grODfcUFSabCd0= Message-ID: <5a4c581d0610021508hdc331f0w7c9b71c3944d4d8b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:08:01 +0200 From: "Alessandro Suardi" To: "Theodore Tso" , "Dan Williams" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , jt@hpl.hp.com, "Andrew Morton" , "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 In-Reply-To: <20061002212604.GA6520@thunk.org> 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> <20061002111537.baa077d2.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002185550.GA14854@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <200610022147.03748.rjw@sisk.pl> <1159822831.11771.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061002212604.GA6520@thunk.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 30 On 10/2/06, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:00:31PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > Distributions _are_ shipping those tools already. The problem is more > > with older distributions where, for example, the kernel gets upgraded > > but other stuff does not. If a kernel upgrade happens, then the distro > > needs to make sure userspace works with it. That's nothing new. > > Um, *which* distro's are shipping it already? RHEL4? SLES10? I > thought we saw a note saying that even Debian **unstable** didn't have > a new enough version of the wireless-tools.... That was my point initially. FC5-latest is apparently carrying tools which are "too old"... and I yum update twice or thrice a week. Not that *I* minded building packages from source, but this is likely a bit too much for a good slice of the userbase. Ciao, --alessandro "Well a man has two reasons for things that he does the first one is pride and the second one is love all understandings must come by this way" (Husker Du, 'She Floated Away') - 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/