Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030333AbWJCRIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:08:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030334AbWJCRIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:08:25 -0400 Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:48364 "EHLO madara.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030333AbWJCRIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:08:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:03:45 -0700 To: Theodore Tso , Dan Williams , "John W. Linville" , Alessandro Suardi , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , jt@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton , hostap@shmoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061003170345.GE17252@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <20061002185550.GA14854@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <200610022147.03748.rjw@sisk.pl> <1159822831.11771.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061002212604.GA6520@thunk.org> <5a4c581d0610021508hdc331f0w7c9b71c3944d4d8b@mail.gmail.com> <1159877574.2879.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061003124902.GB23912@tuxdriver.com> <20061003133845.GG2930@thunk.org> <1159884779.2855.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061003160041.GC29333@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061003160041.GC29333@thunk.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: 947 Lines: 23 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:00:41PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > Consider that that the normal, MINIMUM waiting period for *removing* > an interface or functionality is six months. I would argue that this > means that we should be waiting that long before making > backwards-incompatible changes to an interface should be at least that > long. Wireless Tools with the new API were released in April. wpa_supplicant with the new API was release May 5th. That makes it 6 months. Wireless Tools v28 was included in Gentoo April 11th and in Debian testing May 27th. wpa_supplicant 0.4.9 was included in Gentoo May 27th and Debian testing June 10th. Please consider the facts before assuming. 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/