Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751327AbWJECao (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:30:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751331AbWJECao (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:30:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:11753 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751327AbWJECao (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:30:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jean Tourrilhes 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 In-Reply-To: <20061005002637.GA5145@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: References: <20061003214038.GE23912@tuxdriver.com> <20061004181032.GA4272@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061004185903.GA4386@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061004195229.GA4459@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061004204718.GA4599@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20061005002637.GA5145@bougret.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 28 On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > There was the grand total of *ONE* user who was personally > impacted by the userspace API change (the two other, one was hit by a > bug, now fixed, one was hit because of kernel API change + external > driver). And I immediately proposed to postpone the change to a later > time. Heh, ok. I'm personally not able to really judge any wireless-extensions stuff, so I have to go by how noisy the discussion becomes ;) I'll leave this to you guys to sort out, I just did want to pipe up (since I was asked to) that as far as _I_ am concerned, user-space interfaces really are very important. Whether this is one of the really important ones or not, I leave to the people involved to figure out, but I really don't want to have developers dismissing the issue. (I think some people used to, and I think we've gotten better at it. But maybe I'm just being overly optimistic again ;) Linus - 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/