Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161001AbWJDAbg (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:31:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161002AbWJDAbg (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:31:36 -0400 Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:62178 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161001AbWJDAbe (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:31:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:30:31 -0700 To: Sean Cc: Theodore Tso , "John W. Linville" , Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Lee Revell , Alessandro Suardi , Norbert Preining , hostap@shmoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061004003031.GA2215@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <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> <20061003231648.GB26351@thunk.org> <20061003233138.GA2095@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061003202754.ce69f03a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061003202754.ce69f03a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> 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: 815 Lines: 23 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:27:54PM -0400, Sean wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:31:38 -0700 > Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > It's already done with the current interface, you can access > > the API with either ioctls or RtNetlink. > > Does this answer Ted's question though? Why can't userspace request > the new v48 interface to get the changed API while older tools > get the v47 interface and continue to work without needing to > be upgraded? How does that happen in practice ? Kernel has no clue on what userpace version is running. > Sean 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/