Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 16:58:54 EST


On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:41 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Jean, John: the amount of trouble which this change is causing is quite
> > high considering that we're not even at -rc1 yet. It's going to get worse.
> >
> > It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to
> > continue to work correctly with old userspace?
>
> Actually, I have the perfect solution. We ship a new version
> of the Wireless Tools and wpa_supplicant alongside the kernel, and
> install those when the user install the new kernel. That way, we make
> sure they always use the correct version of userspace with the kernel.

Like udev :) And libsysfs :)

> Regards,
>
> Jean
>

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