From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
jt@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
hostap@shmoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:30:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061003143012.GC23912@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159884779.2855.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:12:59AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 09:38 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > John, has the wireless community considered creating a new interface
> > which *is* carefully designed, and supporting both the new and the
> > legacy interface for 2-3 years until all of the mainstream
>
> Yes, nl80211/cfg80211 (sent to netdev@ last week) is the likely
> successor. Please, if you have suggestions for ABI/API-proofability,
> review the patch and post suggestions! We all know a carefully designed
> is not just about the code, but about the semantics, structures, etc as
> well. It would be quite valuable to have everyone's input to make sure
> it's as future-proof as possible.
Dan is quick on his keyboard today! :-)
As Dan points-out, there is serious work underway on the next
generation wireless management A[BP]I. That work is (perhaps
unfortunately) closely linked to the new wireless stack work currently
underway.
John
P.S. Ted, thanks for your calm and respectful communications!
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 8:59 wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 9:21 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-02 11:32 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 12:21 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-02 12:46 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 16:50 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 16:58 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 18:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 18:55 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:22 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 19:59 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-02 19:39 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-02 19:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-02 21:00 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 21:26 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-02 21:58 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 10:39 ` Keith Owens
2006-10-02 22:08 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-03 12:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-03 12:49 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 13:38 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 14:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-03 14:30 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2006-10-03 16:00 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 17:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 16:52 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 17:23 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 17:38 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 17:40 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-03 22:30 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 22:51 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 12:53 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-03 16:41 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-10 6:29 ` Reinhard Tartler
2006-10-02 19:41 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 20:57 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 21:04 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 16:44 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-03 12:38 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 12:59 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 15:54 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-03 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 18:05 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 18:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 18:38 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 18:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 19:48 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 19:52 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 21:40 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 21:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 22:27 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 22:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 2:10 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-10-03 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 22:16 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 22:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 18:10 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 18:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 18:42 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 18:59 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 19:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 19:52 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 20:47 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 0:26 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 15:20 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-05 16:28 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-06 21:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-04 21:08 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-04 23:29 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-05 0:30 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 1:55 ` LEAP (was: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing) Jouni Malinen
2006-10-03 23:14 ` [ipw3945-devel] wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing mabbas
2006-10-03 23:16 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 23:31 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 0:27 ` Sean
2006-10-04 0:27 ` Sean
2006-10-04 0:30 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 0:36 ` Sean
2006-10-04 0:36 ` Sean
2006-10-04 12:36 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-04 7:49 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-05 16:35 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 16:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:42 ` Erik Andersen
2006-10-05 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 18:36 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-04 7:50 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-03 19:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-03 19:49 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 2:21 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-10-04 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-04 12:39 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 18:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-10-03 18:40 ` Jean Tourrilhes
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