Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:54:36 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:38 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:44:42PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 09:21 +0000, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > > we've been just through an email thread where it has been > > > determined that wpa_supplicant 0.4.9 (I would assume that > > > 0.5.5 is also okay) and wireless-tools from Jean's latest > > > tarball are necessary to work with the recent wireless > > > extensions v21 that have been merged in. > > > > > > What wireless-tools are you using ? > > > > This must be considered a kernel bug - it's not allowed to break > > userspace compatibility in a stable series. > > But there is no development series. The closest thing we have is the > merge window after each release -- which is exactly when this issue > revealed itself. > > Wireless in general (and the wireless extensions api in particular) > is a bit of a 'whipping boy' in the Linux world. OK, we suck. > Everyone wants to display their wisdom by telling us how much we suck! > We know all about it... > > We have sucked, and we continue to suck -- and we are working on it. > But, we are not going to be able to whip-up this omelette without > breaking a few eggs. If we can't do that during the merge windows, > WHEN CAN WE DO IT?
This is a question for Linus, it's his rule...
Lee
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