Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030484AbWJCSlZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:41:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030478AbWJCSlY (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:41:24 -0400 Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:47605 "EHLO madara.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030477AbWJCSk7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:40:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:40:16 -0700 To: Hugh Dickins Cc: "John W. Linville" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061003184016.GB17635@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 1128 Lines: 27 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > 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 wireless_tools.28 do support WE-21. I'm not a fool. 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/