Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030469AbWJCTA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:00:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030478AbWJCTA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:00:28 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:52970 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030469AbWJCTA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:00:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4522B311.7070905@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:59:29 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jt@hpl.hp.com CC: "John W. Linville" , 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 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> <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.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: 785 Lines: 20 Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Now it's too late, those changes have propagated to userspace > tools, and are now shipping in some actual release of some distro. So, > what are we going to say to Mandriva 2007 and FC6 users, to revert > back to an *older* version of the tools ? > Because userspace has already been updated, we have only two > options, merge it now, or in 2.6.20. If the choice is between the ABI used by a bunch of distros in production, and the ABI used by two re-release distros, I think the choice is obvious... 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/