Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:49:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:08:43PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 10/3/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> 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
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