Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964852AbWJCSk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:40:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964876AbWJCSk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:40:57 -0400 Received: from excu-mxob-1.symantec.com ([198.6.49.12]:15031 "EHLO excu-mxob-1.symantec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964852AbWJCSk4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:40:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:31:08 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.wat.veritas.com 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, jeff@garzik.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, jt@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing In-Reply-To: <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Oct 2006 18:31:00.0218 (UTC) FILETIME=[13188DA0:01C6E71A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 22 On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, John W. Linville wrote: > > Today's news seems to indicate that at least the major distros are > already shipping the updated tools, or on the verge of shipping them. > The window of breakage for most users looks like it will be fairly > small, no matter what action taken. > > 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. Please correct me if I'm wrong: isn't it the case that a few of the distros are now coming out with wireless_tools.28 supporting WE-20, but current 2.6.18-git wireless drivers are WE-21, supported only by wireless_tools.29.pre10? Hugh - 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/