Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:52:44 -0700 | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jean Tourrilhes 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. > > If the choice is between the ABI used by a bunch of distros in > production, and the ABI used by two re-release distros, I think the > choice is obvious... > > Jeff
And remember that it's not *terminally* broken, the user can still use the old tools with WE-21, he just need to add a dummy character at the end of the ESSID string. It's probably annoying, but it's not the end of the world.
Jean
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