Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:27:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >Unfortunately, I don't see any way to "fix" WE-21 without similarly > >breaking wireless-tools 29 and other "WE-21 aware" apps. And since > >I'll bet that the various WE-aware apps have checks like "if WE > > >20" for managing ESSID length settings, we may have painted ourselves > >into a korner (sic). > > The apps are based on a pre-release kernel, which everyone knows could > change, precisely for reasons like this. Sounds like somebody took a > risk, and lost... > > Jeff
Jeff,
Let's not make a mountain of this molehill. If you want to use old versions of Wireless Tools and wpa_supplicant with WE-21, what you need is just to add a dummy character at the end of your ESSID. And everything will be fine.
Also, there is no other way to update cleanly a kernel API than to push userspace first. I think I took way more care in term of smoothing over the API transition than any other kernel subsystem, so I don't know what could have been done better. I don't remember this level of flamewar when those other subsystems did change their userspace APIs. I try to be constructive about all this, so let's find a way forward without loosing perspective.
Regards,
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