Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750974AbWJDT6F (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:58:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750978AbWJDT6F (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:58:05 -0400 Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:26069 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbWJDT6C (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:58:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:52:29 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "John W. Linville" , Jeff Garzik , Lee Revell , Alessandro Suardi , Norbert Preining , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061004195229.GA4459@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <4522B311.7070905@garzik.org> <20061003214038.GE23912@tuxdriver.com> <20061004181032.GA4272@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061004185903.GA4386@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: 1474 Lines: 42 On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:21:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The current situation seems to be designed to add the new one and removing > the old one as a single step. THAT IS BROKEN. This is not the case, I don't know where you got this idea. This is a *two* step process with a 6 month interval between the two steps. This was clearly detailed earlier in this thread. > The new one and the old one needs to work at the same time, exactly so > that there's a transition mechanism. Yes, this is precisely what we have been doing, the two APIs have been working at the same time for more than 6 months. > > That's exactly what it hinges on. What is your criteria for > > removing the old ESSID API. My understanding was 6 months. > > But we didn't have 6 months of the new API, did we? Yes, we had more of 6 months of the new API. Please check the facts : included April 11th in Gentoo. > People complained. Yes, maybe 6 months was two short. That's why I say that we should give it one or two more months. Maybe we need FC6 to be released. > The person you merged through explicitly said that if he had realized what > you did, he wouldn't have merged. I did not merge through Jeff. > Linus 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/