Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:08:43PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 10/3/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >       Now it's too late, those changes have propagated to userspace
> >tools, and are now shipping in some actual release of some distro. So,
> >what are we going to say to Mandriva 2007 and FC6 users, to revert
> >back to an *older* version of the tools ?
> >       Because userspace has already been updated, we have only two
> >options, merge it now, or in 2.6.20.
> >
> 
> Are you saying that compatibility is broken both ways?? Not only one
> needs new tools for the new kernels but also has to downgrade tools to
> work with older kernels??

	No, it's not. But as soon as *some part* of WE-21 appears in
the kernel, the userspace expect the ESSID change. If we want to have
WE-21 without the ESSID change, we need to fix userspace.

> Dmitry

	Jean
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