Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030220AbWJCTw3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:52:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030210AbWJCTw3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:52:29 -0400 Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:2502 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030220AbWJCTw2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:52:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:49:57 -0700 To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Jeff Garzik , "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 Message-ID: <20061003194957.GB17855@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> <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.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: 1125 Lines: 27 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:08:43PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 10/3/06, 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. > > > > Are you saying that compatibility is broken both ways?? Not only one > needs new tools for the new kernels but also has to downgrade tools to > work with older kernels?? No, it's not. But as soon as *some part* of WE-21 appears in the kernel, the userspace expect the ESSID change. If we want to have WE-21 without the ESSID change, we need to fix userspace. > Dmitry 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/