Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964889AbWJCSUO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:20:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964893AbWJCSUO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:20:14 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:11241 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964889AbWJCSUL (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:20:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:19:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: Linus Torvalds , Lee Revell , Alessandro Suardi , Norbert Preining , hostap@shmoo.com, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, jt@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing References: <20061002085942.GA32387@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <5a4c581d0610020221s7bf100f8q893161b7c8c492d2@mail.gmail.com> <1159807483.4067.150.camel@mindpipe> <20061003123835.GA23912@tuxdriver.com> <1159890876.20801.65.camel@mindpipe> <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 994 Lines: 25 John W. Linville wrote: > The more we can clean-up the WE API, the easier it will be to implement > the cfg80211 WE compatibility layer intended for wireless-dev. > I think WE-21 makes things better in that respect. > > Finally, I already scaled-back Jean's original WE-21 patch. I only > anticipate minor bug fixes for WE from now on, with nl80211/cfg80211 > as the heir-apparent. > > With all that said, I'd prefer to keep the existing WE-21 patches and > add Jean's fixes ASAP. Is this acceptable? If not, I'll submit the > reversions to Jeff ASAP. I for one don't want to change the userspace ABI for this... If I had realized the userspace ABI was changing (<- my fault), I wouldn't have merged the changes in the first place. Jeff - 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/