Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932113AbWJEPUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:20:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932110AbWJEPUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:20:11 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.226]:54354 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932113AbWJEPUI (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:20:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cLtFHXJwrRkIoUWLIPYC6ngafu9PZF/sc3hr3fOoGe3EJlbtoVZOM0OYMfJWLhCSuetOLad81m6Iq6yKH0cwJLVvTLKsF4aABI+wNkavAoVOFAUbjVnfA3jig3Jr0x+f+qcDrFmuYgLWte1MXRai25eglMx17p8SxFj3TuHOZCw= Message-ID: <5a4c581d0610050820m11779c4er7a323cfec49cd39a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:20:06 +0000 From: "Alessandro Suardi" To: jt@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "John W. Linville" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Lee Revell" , "Norbert Preining" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net In-Reply-To: <20061005002637.GA5145@bougret.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1427 Lines: 35 On 10/5/06, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:26:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > The very fact that this turned into a discussion is a sign that the ABI > > breakage wasn't handled well enough. Usually, when we do something, nobody > > ever even notices. > > 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. And said user, being me, is currently running with upgraded userspace without any issues (counting upgrading userspace as a non-issue). I originally logged my report as I do for other things that break or look different in new snapshots, in order to provide early feedback to the kernel developers - I guess it's the actual point of having snapshots from kernel.org... Thanks, ciao, --alessandro "Well a man has two reasons for things that he does the first one is pride and the second one is love all understandings must come by this way" (Husker Du, 'She Floated Away') - 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/