Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932340AbWJDMrk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:47:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932380AbWJDMrk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:47:40 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:6928 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932340AbWJDMrj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:47:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:39:42 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jouni Malinen , Jean Tourrilhes , Dmitry Torokhov , Jeff Garzik , 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: <20061004123935.GB9277@tuxdriver.com> References: <20061003123835.GA23912@tuxdriver.com> <1159890876.20801.65.camel@mindpipe> <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061003194957.GB17855@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061004022100.GC6110@jm.kir.nu> <1159947203.3000.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1159947203.3000.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 974 Lines: 26 On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:33:23AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:21 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > (And based on the other messages in this thread, it might be useful to > > include the userspace program's idea of the version in those new > > commands to allow multiple interface versions to be supported by the > > kernel). > > > or... don't use a NUMBER for this. > > If you have a bitmap for supported features, it's much more powerful! > That way you can even do this per driver/hardware, and you can > add/retract individual capabilities rather than lumping everything into > one big number. Arjan (as usual) makes a very good suggestion here... -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - 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/