Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030573AbWJCVtD (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:49:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030574AbWJCVtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:49:02 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38019 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030573AbWJCVs7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:48:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4522DA9B.6050207@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:48:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: jt@hpl.hp.com, 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> <4522B311.7070905@garzik.org> <20061003214038.GE23912@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20061003214038.GE23912@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: 742 Lines: 19 John W. Linville wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't see any way to "fix" WE-21 without similarly > breaking wireless-tools 29 and other "WE-21 aware" apps. And since > I'll bet that the various WE-aware apps have checks like "if WE > > 20" for managing ESSID length settings, we may have painted ourselves > into a korner (sic). The apps are based on a pre-release kernel, which everyone knows could change, precisely for reasons like this. Sounds like somebody took a risk, and lost... 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/