Re: Regression in 2.6.27-git from commit 43ac2ca3840f64

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 13:06:53 EST


On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:47 -0700, Larry Finger wrote:

> When a utility starts spitting messages that it doesn't understand what the
> kernel is providing _AND_ the commit message does not mention that this will
> happen, can someone be blamed for thinking it is a bug?

Heh, no, not really. It was fairly obvious us, but I guess we were just
routine-blinded.

> Clearly this is not a regression. Are there plans to update the wireless utilities?

I suspect it could just be made to ignore them. Or skip a select few,
but obviously it will never be able to parse all of them...

johannes

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